Hi.
A rather general query (sorry!). I have previously used the Commons Net FTP Ant task in client software, which FTPed reasonably large numbers of files over the Internet (I know, I know - I was constrained to use this at the time!). One of the problems was fairly frequent IOExceptions, presumably due to network issues and FTP disconnects. We are looking to move to SFTP transfers via Commons VFS, both for the obvious security and, hopefully, to minimise any similar network problems. So the question is really whether the second benefit will materialise. Does the Commons VFS code have any built-in auto-reconnects or anything similar (a la most decent SFTP clients)? Am I likely to see increased stability of file transfers (esp. with the encryption overhead)? In fact, I noted that someone had proposed adding some auto reconnect logic to Ant for the FTP task (http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27883) but don't think this ever got implemented. How did the VFS developers approach this angle?? Apologies for the generality, but didn't seem to be covered elsewhere. Regards, Stuart ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________
