what java API handles ftp download/uplaod ?

[Ian Yang]

Do you know what Java API handles the "ftp" type of work like download/upload ? I used to have some Korn shell script do this kind backgroud work, do you know if it is feasible to use java to do it ? will it be much slower ?
Thanks,
Ian

[Ilja Preuss]

You can use http://www.savarese.org/oro/downloads/#NetComponents for ftp access in Java.
Why do you think it would be slower in Java?

[mike zhang]

Thank you so much. If you don't mind I would like to ask you another question: what java API can handle those UNIX type commands like --
"uname" -- find machine name
"cp file1 file2";
and so on.
Any resource site ?
Thanks,
Mike

[mike zhang]

Thank you so much. If you don't mind I would like to ask you another question: what java API can handle those UNIX type commands like --
"uname" -- find machine name
"cp file1 file2";
and so on.
Any resource site ?
Thanks,
Mike

[Michael Crutcher]

You basically want to access the command line right? Every jvm is started by a runtime environment and has a reference to that environment.
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
Gets a reference to the runtime environment that started the jvm. You can then execute an array of commands with:
rt.exec(cmd[]);
There is, of course, much more complexity than this, but google "java Runtime.exec" and you'll find several articles about this subject.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2000/jw-1229-traps.html
Is a good place to find some of the more common mistakes explained.
Michael Crutcher