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ECF BitTorrent Provider

Revision as of 18:39, 7 June 2006 by Remy.suen.gmail.com (Talk | contribs) (BitTorrent Plug-in Data Model)

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.

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

External Links

Eclipse Communication Framework Website

BitTorrent Specification

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