Welcome to the Slipper Project @ sourceforge.net
Overview
The goal of slipper is to control peer to peer applications remotely.
This could be of some use to users behind proxy/firewalls where non-standard ports
are typcially blocked, yet traffic is allowed on standard ports (telnet, ftp, http).
Current tasks
The project currently has two main tasks which will be integrated in the final design:
- FTP Download automation - Poll a remote file resource for new files,
pulling them to the local machine when the file is finished downloading. Two
sources for a FTP protocol library are being used:
finj (FTP in Java) and
IBM's FTPProtocol Bean. As soon as finj has
reached a stable status for file transfer, finj will be the sole ftp protocol library used.
- Terminal emulation integration - By integrating code created as part of the
Java Telnet Application create a Swing component
which will contain a terminal capable of emulating multiple terminal types. The component
would then trigger off file events (such as puts/gets) by listening for user-defined
signals from the incoming and outgoing feeds.
End Result
The net result of this integration would be a telnet/ftp integration capable of syncing a
local machine with a remote machine running a peer-to-peer application. Ideally this would
be a pluggable interface, but for now the goal is to get napster running using
The Linux Napster Client.
However, the goal of this is to make it pluggable and allow other p2p apps be integrated
with a easy to use API.
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Document Last Modified 11/24/2000