QuickGet is an open source project which aims to create a multi-threaded download manager. As you know, currently there are varies download managers for Windows platform (such as Flashget, Netants and etc).But for Unix-like systems(Solaris, Linux and etc), there are no production-level GUI download manager for the users. The only available tool which can be used is wget. But wget is command-line based and lack of some advanced features (such as multi-threaded download, download by multi-proxies simulataneously...).

Quickget project's aim is to fill up this gap. It will be built based on the Java technologies, so it will provide the same functionalities on Windows platform as on other platforms (Unix-like system and Mac computers). And by open source this project, everybody can improve his ideas and commit to this project.

Quickget project's main goal is to create a multi-threaded downloader on Java platform. As I planed for this project, we should support the following functionalies in this project.

1. Multi-threaded download the objects on remote computers.

2. Support using Http, Socks4, Socks5 proxies.

3. Support for Http, Ftp protocol. And Mms and some stream protocol will be supported in the future.

4. Support for P2P functionalites. Downloader can retrieve the desired part from peers. (Implement after the first 3 objects).

As you know, there are lots of sub-requirements in each requirement. And we will try to list the detailed requirements and implements them step by step.