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Does eclipse provide any underlying facilities to retrieve data from remote systems [message #652652]

Fri, 04 February 2011 20:42

Jing Xie

Messages: 13
Registered: July 2009
Location: UNC Charlotte

Junior Member

Hi,

Conceptually, what I am trying to do is pretty simple.

I want to write a plugin that can download a bunch of jar and other files from a given valid URL. So I think the plugin has to connect to the network through some means. Now that Eclipse plugin installation essentially does similar things but only downloads eclipse plugin type of jars, but the nevertheless, there's a way to achieve what I want to do. The problem of mine is that I don't know where I should be heading to get hold of the related knowledge.

I would appreciate if anyone points me to the right direction.

Thanks so much.
Jing

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Re: Does eclipse provide any underlying facilities to retrieve data from remote systems [message #652668 is a reply to message #652652]

Sat, 05 February 2011 03:02

Michael Pellaton

Messages: 289
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

org.apache.commons.httpclient is available as bundle in Eclipse.

HTH
Michael

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Re: Does eclipse provide any underlying facilities to retrieve data from remote systems [message #652712 is a reply to message #652652]

Sat, 05 February 2011 19:59

jack

Messages: 8
Registered: January 2011

Junior Member

im new to eclipse but ive been through a few or the options once up and running and im pretty sure you can import from various sources,im running helios with the additional plug ins.

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