Bo Öberg wrote:
What we'd like to do is to externally control the ftpserver, but not only as to start and stop it, but also to, for instance, manage the user-repository. Is the server sort of hot deploying the user.gen-file if this is the solution selected? Or, if a database solution is as at hand; is that 'polled' once in a while? Maybe the real question is: what is the roadmap ahead? In terms of (remote-)apis especially.
When it comes to user handling, it depends on the UserManager you're using. In the case of PropertiesUserManager (the one using user.gen), it reads it on startup and then keeps in in-memory. In the case of DbUserManager, it will check the database on each lookup.
If you need further functionality, I would recommend you to look into writing your own custom UserManager, it pretty straight-forward. Feel free to ask more here if you have further questions regarding this.
As for future roadmap, we don't really have one. I would really like to do JMX support in the near future, but beyond that I don't know. Feature requests are of course welcomed :-).
/niklas
