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ECF BitTorrent Provider
Project Lead: Remy Chi Jian Suen
Mentor(s): Wayne Beaton, Scott Lewis, and Chris Aniszczyk
The goal if this project is to create an implementation of the file sharing API provided by the Eclipse Communication Framework using the BitTorrent protocol.
Contents
BitTorrent Plug-in Data Model
org.eclipse.bittorrent
Host - reads in a Torrent connects to peers to begin seeding or downloading
- contains exactly one Torrent
- contains one or more DataFiles
- contains one or more Pieces
Torrent - a representation of the metainfo stored within a .torrent file
org.eclipse.bittorrent.internal.encode
BEecodedDictionary - holds the key-value pairs stored within a bencoded string.
Decode - decodes information such as the contents of a torrent file
Encode - converts or alters information for use
org.eclipse.bittorrent.internal.net
ConnectionPool - a thread pool that manages ConnectionThreads
- contains exactly one Host
- contains one or more ConnectionThreads
ConnectionThread - creates a PeerConnection to talk to a peer
- contains exactly one PeerConnection
PeerConnection - connects to a peer and exchanges information
- exactly one Host
org.eclipse.bittorrent.internal.torrent
DataFile - a representation of a file on the user's system for read/write operations
- contains one or more Pieces
Piece - a piece of data that is needed to complete a download
- contains one or more DataFiles