The Gettee Project

Gettee is a simple HTTP downloader written in Java. Its main target is the Macintosh although it should work on other platforms that have Java 5 installed.

This is an beta release as well as my first sourceforge project. I cannot accept any responsibilities for the use of this software. It has not been fully professionnaly tested.

You can download a working release.

• If you are on Linux or Windows and Java is properly configured (a.o. it handles the executable JARs properly), simply download the JAR file and double-click on it to launch Gettee.
  Alternatively, you can input 'java -jar gettee.[version].jar' at a command line.
• If you are on a Mac, download the DMG file. It should open automatically. If not, double-click on it. Drag the application onto your application folder and you're done: Gettee is installed.

Finally, the ZIP file contains the source of the project. It is a Netbeans project that you can open with Netbeans 5.0. However, Netbeans is not necessary to compile or edit this project. It comes with a standard ant build.xml that you can run without Netbeans. If you download the ZIP file, you are not obliged to compile the project though: binaries are provided in in the dist/ directory.

Uninstalling
Please note that Gettee creates one file on your filesystem i.e. $HOME/.gettee. To uninstall Gettee, dump the jar and this file...

I would like to thank the following projects and organisations as they have made Gettee possible:

• Sun Microsystems for Java and Netbeans
• Apple Computers for the Macintosh
• JGoodies for their Plastic look and feel
• JarBundler for the ease of creating Mac application bundles

Versions:

• 0.7: Corrected some typos in the code commentaries.
  Added icon in the Linux and Windows versions
  Now provide a by-default name in the command line if none is provided (default name is 'gettee-download').
  Fixed the bug that prevented the icon to be viewd in the 'About' dialog.
• 0.6: Added confirmation of overwriting if the command line is used
  Added many comments in the code.
  There is now a .dmg for Mac users.
• 0.5.1: This is exactly the same version as 0.5 but the files are not corrupted in this one.
• 0.5: You can now download from the command line :
  java -jar gettee.jar <URL> </path/to/file>
  Careful though! The command line version does not prompt you before overwriting the file.
• 0.4: Added the possibility to download only the jar binary.
• 0.3: new feature: if one tries to download to a file that already exists, there is a warming to avoid accidental overwriting.
• 0.2: bug correction: the property file created for the application was $HOME/.wgetosx, replaced with $HOME/.gettee
• 0.1: initial release, alpha