DMP : Java Glossary

home page go to the Java Glossary Home go to the Computer Buyer’s Glossary up jump to foot of page Google search web for more information on this topic Pinterest pin button
* 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z (all)
©1996-2017 Roedy Green of Canadian Mind Products

DMP
DMP (Download Management Protocol). A protocol for downloading files that also captures extra information about them such as the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) they came from. This allows automatic notification of updates and related announcements and one click download of updates. It does not cover automatic installation. Only the Go!Zilla file downloader supports it for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/W2K/XP/W2K3.

DMP allows a site to provide information about any file. This information includes the following:

  1. file name.
  2. the long filename of the file (if the filename is in 8.3 format).
  3. multiple file locations (URL s) where the file can be downloaded.
  4. a URL to a rich text file (.rtf) for Go!Zilla to monitor that contains announcements about the file.
  5. the URL of the file’s homepage (such as http://www.quake3arena.com).
  6. a user.
  7. friendly plain text name for the file (such as Quake 3).
  8. description text for the file.
  9. version of the file.
  10. file size of the file (64-bit file sizes will be supported by Go!Zilla 4.0).
  11. the name of the archive which contains the file (if the file is in an archive).
Although it was previously documented on the Go!Zilla site, it has since been removed. To use it you create links to .DMP files on your server. Go!Zilla (or another program) should download the DMP file, parse it and use the information therein for downloading the file.

File date and time are not currently stored within the DMP file; those attributes tend to vary across servers. However, the format is extensible and could store such information. Sun has a competing similar project called Java Web Start.

This page is posted
on the web at:

 http://mindprod.com/jgloss/dmp.html

Optional Replicator mirror
of mindprod.com
on local hard disk J:

 J:\mindprod\jgloss\dmp.html
Canadian Mind Products
Please the feedback from other visitors, or your own feedback about the site.
Contact Roedy. Please feel free to link to this page without explicit permission.

IP:[65.110.21.43]
Your face IP:[18.97.9.170]
You are visitor number