Re: Where Is the Best Place To Store Files?

[Eddie Bush]

It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with being superior or inferior. 
Perhaps they have the DBs living on a small farm and that farm is already 
being used heavily.  Perhaps the absolutely cannot justify sucking bandwidth 
on the route between the web server and db server.  There's tons of reasons 
this might not be the most sound architecture.

I'd always heard to save the files to disk, save a reference (path) to them 
in the DB and then serve them off disk.  You could stick them under WEB-INF 
as suggested earlier and that would protect them from direct access, but, 
yes, you're right, you'd have to have an action stream them out then.

Do they just need to be accessible after upload?  Do you care who accesses 
them?  There are actually ways to protect your files that do not involve 
sticking them below WEB-INF and streaming them.  You might want to consider 
setting up a security-constraint.  If you're not familiar with those, check 
the Servlet specification.  Jason Hunter mentions them in his book, "Java 
Servlet Programming".  Indeed, there are many resources for this.

Regards,
Eddie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael McGrady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Where Is the Best Place To Store Files?


Unless, of course, you are using something like HSQLdb, in which case, 
tell him he is a smart-ass.  Seriously, there are difficulties with some 
databases in this respect.  Don't know what you are using, and Vic if 
probably right that your "superior" is "inferior".

Michael McGrady
Vic Cekvenich wrote:
Caroline Jen wrote:
I am already told by my superior "do not save those
files into the database".
What should I do?

Tell him he is a dumb-ass?
;-)
.V
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