<ftp>
As with any development project there always comes a time to ship code. Either this is a JAR file that has to be updated on a remote server, or, if the project is an open-source initiative, you are about to make the latest source code available on the Web. You can easily integrate this functionality into your build file using the optional <ftp> task, which makes interfacing to any FTP server a trivial exercise. This task is basically a wrapper to the FTP class available in the Netcomponents suite. The basic FTP commands available are get, put, del, list, chmod, and mkdir.
Table 5.6 shows the attributes available to the <ftp> task.
| Attributes | Description |
|---|---|
| userid | The username for the FTP server. |
| password ... |
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