Re: [OT]RE: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive

[Nani Jon]

Will:
I am just trying to reference them in my JSP page. I have constructed a URL which 
points to the .mp3 file: http://jupiter/music/mp3/song1.mp3   This is part of an 
iterate loop >> 09/09/02 02:06PM >>> 
This has got to be a candidate for the worst, messiest solution ever... 

Worse comes to worse, you could have two applications... one that holds 
and serves up the mp3 files and the other that does all the other 
work... 

I'm sure there is a hole a mile wide in this idea... 



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From: ekbush [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:39 PM 
To: struts-user 
Subject: Re: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive 


That could get quite tricky if you're running out of a WAR archive. If 
your application is deployed in "unpacked" format, then you could 
sym-link (on Un*x anyway) to it I would think. So you'd wind up with a 
sym-link in your root (or protected under WEB-INF) that pointed to the 
real directory. I can't think of another elegant solution. Maybe 
someone else can. 

Regards, 

Eddie 

Nani Jon wrote: 

>Hi: 
> 
>Here is my sitiuation. I have deployed my application war file to a 
JBoss_Tomcat caontainer. I have developed this app using struts. I am 
trying to access multiple music files (mp3 format) form this app. I 
don't want to wrap all of my mp3 files which total to about 1 GB in my 
war file. This makes for a very lenghty deploy process, especially when 
it is work in progress. I just want to put them in a directory on the 
server where Tomcat is running and point to that directory in my 
application. How is this done. Your help is greatly appreciated. 
> 
>Thanks, 
> 
>Nanijon. 
> 



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[OT]RE: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive

[Will Etson]

Are you trying to access the files from Java or just reference them via html? If you 
just want a reference, Tomcat and most other web servers have a notion of a virtual 
directory. I believe with tomcat you can set this up with context entry pointing to 
some  random directory. If you want to reference the MP3s via Java, I used a property 
file to indicate the directory the my mp3s are stored in along with the virtual 
reference from the new Tomcat Context. This is essentially the same as having two web 
applications. One being deployed as an ear and one as an web application with its 
document root as a directory reference to the mp3 collection. The only draw back I 
found to this is that tomcat treats mime mappings somewhat strangely. ".MP3" and 
".mp3" are not equal. ".mp3" returns the right mime mapping and ".MP3" was returned as 
an octet string.

P.S. If some one has a better solution I be glad to hear it. I toyed around with the 
idea of hijacking the Invoker servlet with a struts action but I didn't feel this was 
very portable and the purpose of this app was to demonstrate best practices i.e. 
portability.

>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/09/02 02:06PM >>> 
This has got to be a candidate for the worst, messiest solution ever... 

Worse comes to worse, you could have two applications... one that holds 
and serves up the mp3 files and the other that does all the other 
work... 

I'm sure there is a hole a mile wide in this idea... 



-Original Message- 
From: ekbush [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:39 PM 
To: struts-user 
Subject: Re: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive 


That could get quite tricky if you're running out of a WAR archive. If 
your application is deployed in "unpacked" format, then you could 
sym-link (on Un*x anyway) to it I would think. So you'd wind up with a 
sym-link in your root (or protected under WEB-INF) that pointed to the 
real directory. I can't think of another elegant solution. Maybe 
someone else can. 

Regards, 

Eddie 

Nani Jon wrote: 

>Hi: 
> 
>Here is my sitiuation. I have deployed my application war file to a 
JBoss_Tomcat caontainer. I have developed this app using struts. I am 
trying to access multiple music files (mp3 format) form this app. I 
don't want to wrap all of my mp3 files which total to about 1 GB in my 
war file. This makes for a very lenghty deploy process, especially when 
it is work in progress. I just want to put them in a directory on the 
server where Tomcat is running and point to that directory in my 
application. How is this done. Your help is greatly appreciated. 
> 
>Thanks, 
> 
>Nanijon. 
> 



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RE: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive

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Re: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive

[Eddie Bush]

I started to suggest something similar myself.  I know some people find 
it easier to optimize such things.  One nice thing:  You could relocate 
it to a different *server* entirely, if that need arose... and have it 
seperate; dedicated to serving the media.

Regards,

Eddie

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>This has got to be a candidate for the worst, messiest solution ever...
>
>Worse comes to worse, you could have two applications... one that holds
>and serves up the mp3 files and the other that does all the other
>work...
>
>I'm sure there is a hole a mile wide in this idea...
>



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RE: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive

[Nani Jon]

Thanks Daniel:
Can you provide me with an example of the usage of the config file? I would appreciate 
it. 
Thanks,
Nani Jon.
 Daniel Joshua wrote:Nani Jon,

Try using this... http://www.webdav.org/

Alternatively, you can store the path of the MP3 directory into a config
file, and just use normal IO to interact with them.


Regards,
Daniel

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Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive


This has got to be a candidate for the worst, messiest solution ever...

Worse comes to worse, you could have two applications... one that holds
and serves up the mp3 files and the other that does all the other
work...

I'm sure there is a hole a mile wide in this idea...



-Original Message-
From: ekbush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:39 PM
To: struts-user
Subject: Re: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive


That could get quite tricky if you're running out of a WAR archive. If
your application is deployed in "unpacked" format, then you could
sym-link (on Un*x anyway) to it I would think. So you'd wind up with a
sym-link in your root (or protected under WEB-INF) that pointed to the
real directory. I can't think of another elegant solution. Maybe
someone else can.

Regards,

Eddie

Nani Jon wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Here is my sitiuation. I have deployed my application war file to a
JBoss_Tomcat caontainer. I have developed this app using struts. I am
trying to access multiple music files (mp3 format) form this app. I
don't want to wrap all of my mp3 files which total to about 1 GB in my
war file. This makes for a very lenghty deploy process, especially when
it is work in progress. I just want to put them in a directory on the
server where Tomcat is running and point to that directory in my
application. How is this done. Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nanijon.
>



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Re: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive

[Ryan Cuprak]

 Have you considered storing them in a database as a blob and retrieving via
jdbc? You might want to checkout www.frontbase.com which does a pretty good
job with streaming blobs in/out of a database (seekable stream too). At a
conference they were streaming quicktime movies out of a database as a demo
and you could hop to any point in the movie.
 

-Ryan

On 9/9/02 15:29, "Nani Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Hi:
> 
> Here is my sitiuation. I have deployed my application war file to a
> JBoss_Tomcat caontainer. I have developed this app using struts. I am trying
> to access multiple music files (mp3 format) form this app. I don't want to
> wrap all of my mp3 files which total to about 1 GB in my war file. This makes
> for a very lenghty deploy process, especially when it is work in progress. I
> just want to put them in a directory on the server where Tomcat is running and
> point to that directory in my application. How is this done. Your help is
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nanijon.
> 
> 
> 
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RE: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive

[Daniel Joshua]

Nani Jon,

Try using this... http://www.webdav.org/

Alternatively, you can store the path of the MP3 directory into a config
file, and just use normal IO to interact with them.


Regards,
Daniel

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive


This has got to be a candidate for the worst, messiest solution ever...

Worse comes to worse, you could have two applications... one that holds
and serves up the mp3 files and the other that does all the other
work...

I'm sure there is a hole a mile wide in this idea...



-Original Message-
From: ekbush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:39 PM
To: struts-user
Subject: Re: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive


That could get quite tricky if you're running out of a WAR archive.  If
your application is deployed in "unpacked" format, then you could
sym-link (on Un*x anyway) to it I would think.  So you'd wind up with a
sym-link in your root (or protected under WEB-INF) that pointed to the
real directory.  I can't think of another elegant solution.  Maybe
someone else can.

Regards,

Eddie

Nani Jon wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Here is my sitiuation. I have deployed my application war file to a
JBoss_Tomcat caontainer. I have developed this app using struts. I am
trying to access multiple music files (mp3 format) form this app. I
don't want to wrap all of my mp3 files which total to about 1 GB in my
war file. This makes for a very lenghty deploy process, especially when
it is work in progress. I just want to put them in a directory on the
server where Tomcat is running and point to that directory in my
application. How is this done. Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nanijon.
>



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RE: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive

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Re: accessing large/multiple files on hard drive

[Eddie Bush]

That could get quite tricky if you're running out of a WAR archive.  If 
your application is deployed in "unpacked" format, then you could 
sym-link (on Un*x anyway) to it I would think.  So you'd wind up with a 
sym-link in your root (or protected under WEB-INF) that pointed to the 
real directory.  I can't think of another elegant solution.  Maybe 
someone else can.

Regards,

Eddie

Nani Jon wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Here is my sitiuation. I have deployed my application war file to a JBoss_Tomcat 
>caontainer. I have developed this app using struts. I am trying to access multiple 
>music files (mp3 format) form this app. I don't want to wrap all of my mp3 files 
>which total to about 1 GB in my war file. This makes for a very lenghty deploy 
>process, especially when it is work in progress. I just want to put them in a 
>directory on the server where Tomcat is running and point to that directory in my 
>application. How is this done. Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nanijon.
>



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