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Subject: [vfs] porting sftp from JSch to Sshtools
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:38:49 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [vfs] porting sftp from JSch to Sshtools
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From: "Jeff Barrett" <JBarrett@sawyermedia.com>
To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>

I've been working around/with sftp for a little while, and JSch is a bit =
hard to work with.  I've contacted the maintainer of Sshtools and he has =
agreed to make his java ssh library, J2SSH (http://www.sshtools.com/) =
available via an Apache friendly license (he's currently LGPL) if we =
ported VFS over to it.

I'd be happy to do this port, as long as I thought it would get =
commited.  Motivation for me is mainly that J2SSH is more actively =
maintained, and the code is far cleaner.  Both libraries are young and =
have their small problems.  But finding and fixing bugs in J2SSH is far =
easier.

On a side note, the Sshtools maintainer said other jakarta projects that =
have sought a better implementation of SSH but the license stopped them. =
 This might help them out as well.

Any thoughts?

+jeff

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