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Tim Boudreau has released a new version of the Swing Wizard library (version 0.997) that fixes the WizardException bug reported in JavaWorld's recent Open Source Java Project profile. The article's examples have been reworked to test out the new, improved WizardException. Thanks, Tim, for this helpful fix!
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////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Program: copyURL.java
// Author: Anil Hemrajani (anil@patriot.net)
// Purpose: Utility for copying files from the Internet to local disk
// Example: 1. java copyURL http://www.patriot.net/users/anil/resume/resume.gif
//          2. java copyURL http://www.ibm.com/index.html abcd.html
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
class copyURL
{
  public static void main(String args[])
  {
      if (args.length < 1)
      {
          System.err.println
               ("usage: java copyURL URL [LocalFile]");
          System.exit(1);
      }
      try
      {
          URL           url  = new URL(args[0]);
          System.out.println("Opening connection to " + args[0] + "...");
          URLConnection urlC = url.openConnection();
          // Copy resource to local file, use remote file
          // if no local file name specified
          InputStream is = url.openStream();
          // Print info about resource
          System.out.print("Copying resource (type: " +
                           urlC.getContentType());
          Date date=new Date(urlC.getLastModified());
          System.out.println(", modified on: " +
             date.toLocaleString() + ")...");
          System.out.flush();
          FileOutputStream fos=null;
          if (args.length < 2)
          {
              String localFile=null;
              // Get only file name
              StringTokenizer st=new StringTokenizer(url.getFile(), "/");
              while (st.hasMoreTokens())
                     localFile=st.nextToken();
              fos = new FileOutputStream(localFile);
          }
          else
              fos = new FileOutputStream(args[1]);
          int oneChar, count=0;
          while ((oneChar=is.read()) != -1)
          {
             fos.write(oneChar);
             count++;
          }
          is.close();
          fos.close();
          System.out.println(count + " byte(s) copied");
      }
      catch (MalformedURLException e)
      { System.err.println(e.toString()); }
      catch (IOException e)
      { System.err.println(e.toString()); }
  }
}