Let’s imagine a situation where we want to write a pure Java application that must download files from a remote computer running an FTP server. We also want to filter downloads on the basis of remote ...

If you’ve ever watched an e-mail application choke on a 4MB attachment, you know that sometimes you need an alternative to directly sending or receiving files. And if you’ve ever e-mailed a crucial ...

Web browsers are good at downloading individual files, and e-mail programs are good at sending relatively small files to another person. But for heavier-duty file-transfer tasks, such as uploading ...