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| <properties> |
| <title>Jakarta Commons Net</title> |
| <author email="commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org">Commons Documentation Team</author> |
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| <body> |
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| <section name="Jakarta Commons Net"> |
| <p> |
| Jakarta Commons Net implements the client side of many basic |
| Internet protocols. The purpose of the library is to provide |
| fundamental protocol access, not higher-level |
| abstractions. Therefore, some of the design violates |
| object-oriented design principles. Our philosophy is to make the |
| global functionality of a protocol accessible (e.g., TFTP send |
| file and receive file) when possible, but also provide access to |
| the fundamental protocols where applicable so that the programmer |
| may construct his own custom implementations (e.g, the TFTP |
| packet classes and the TFTP packet send and receive methods are |
| exposed). |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| <section name="Features"> |
| <p> |
| Supported protocols are: |
| <ul> |
| <li>FTP</li> |
| <li>NNTP</li> |
| <li>SMTP</li> |
| <li>POP3</li> |
| <li>Telnet</li> |
| <li>TFTP</li> |
| <li>Finger</li> |
| <li>Whois</li> |
| <li>rexec/rcmd/rlogin</li> |
| <li>Time (rdate) and Daytime</li> |
| <li>Echo</li> |
| <li>Discard</li> |
| <li>NTP/SNTP</li> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| <section name="Background"> |
| <p> |
| Jakarta Commons Net started as a commercial Java library called |
| NetComponents, originally developed by ORO, Inc. in the early |
| days of Java. After its 1.3.8 release in 1998, the source code was |
| donated to the Apache Software Foundation and made available under |
| the Apache License. Since then, many programmers have contributed |
| to the continued development of Jakarta Commons Net. The current |
| version numbering scheme bears no relation to the old. In other |
| words, Jakarta Commons Net 1.0 succeeded and supplanted |
| NetComponents 1.3.8. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| <section name="Further Information"> |
| <p> |
| For more info, see the JavaDoc, or look at some of the following articles: |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=java&seqNum=40">http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=java&seqNum=40</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/25/commons.html?page=3">http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/25/commons.html?page=3</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| </body> |
| </document> |
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