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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
- one or more DataFiles
- 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
- 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
Contains:
- 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:
- contains one or more DataFiles