[jdev] Re: Multiple/parallel file transfers

[Justin Karneges]

Hi Anthony,

On Friday 25 March 2005 07:09 pm, Anthony Ortiz wrote:
> the issue. I see that the status of this JEP is now deferred... does
> this mean multiple file xfer support is now dead?? I for one would
> like to see this JEP resurrected.... calling it overkill would be like
> calling DOS overkill; sure, DOS has directory support *if* you wish to
> use it. If not, don't use it!!
>
> Or maybe I'm just failing to see the overkill, so if one of the
> naysayers could explain to me why it's overkill I would appreciate it.

Well, the reason I dislike it, as I mentioned in an earlier mail, is that 
JEP-105 goes through the whole file transfer negotiation process, including 
JEP-65 (!), for _every_file_ to be transferred.  We can do better than this.

-Justin