File Transfer Service 

Purpose

The File Transfer service is used to upload or download files on a J2EE Engine. This is a utility service that is used for creating files remotely. The Deploy service uses it to upload EAR files to the server before deployment, and transfers the files between cluster elements during deployment.

Being a utility service, the File service may be used by other services to upload/download files between different logical servers. To upload a file, the file path and the location on the server where it is to be saved are required. This file can be deployed remotely. The client jar files must be specified in the application classpath that the service will use.

This service runs on the server only.