bds-ui

This is a "fat client" for the binary distribution system provided by Biscom: http://www.biscom.com/secure-file-transfer/sft/

It uses the SOAP webservices usually deployed with every installation.

Reasons and Features

Biscom's binary distribution system provides a secure way to upload & download files. Usually access is provided via browser applets for the major browser brands. Access to applets might be prevented by customer policies and sometimes the applet just get stuck by a new policy update, browser update etc.

Also the applet lacks some usuability features which come in handy on a day2day usage:

• Easy creation of express deliveries
• Uploading all files and subfolders of a given folder
• Calculation of hash for every uploaded file during upload
  • SHA-256
  • SHA-1
  • MD5
• Drag&Drop support for files and folders
• No installation required
  • Java Runtime Environment required
  • Also to be used as jPortable
• Including HTTP Proxy support
• Integration of command line arguments
  • Every argument is treated as file path

The upload rates are a little bit slower - in the end it is a SOAP-base64 operation which is by-design not the most efficent way to transmit binary data :/

How to run

Download from https://github.com/SunGard-Labs/bds-ui/releases

Execute the bds-ui-<version>.one-jar.jar as JAR.

• Windows

  • Double click while having a Java Runtime installed

  • Run via Portal Apps/jPortable: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/java_portable_launcher

  • Add a link to java -jar bds-ui-<version>.one-jar.jar in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo.

    • All arguments to the JAR are treated as file paths and are prepared for upload.
    • Details can be found here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/customize-the-windows-vista-send-to-menu/
• Command line (Windows, Linux, Mac): java -jar bds-ui-<version>.one-jar.jar

How to build

mvn package - easy, huh?!

Compatible with JDK 1.7 and 1.8.

Pure

Maven is the primary build platform - therefore the following should always work.

mvn clean package

The release file is target/bds-ui-<version>.one-jar.jar It does not require any additional files and can be copied and executed standalone.

Eclipse

It should work in Eclipse with no m2e lifecycle hack. jaxws-maven-plugin is M2E compatible.

How to release

Nothing fancy

mvn -DingnoreSnapshots=true release:prepare release:perform