Absolutely. You could hard code a file path from inside a backing bean and save the file anywhere on your system if you wanted.
Here's some quick code I stole from one of my servlets that reads a file from anywhere (just define your own filename) and sends it to the response:
ServletContext sc = getServletContext();
String filename = sc.getRealPath("/images/bcg.gif");
// Get the MIME type of the image
String mimeType = sc.getMimeType(filename);
if (mimeType == null) {
mimeType = "text/plain";
}
// Set content type
response.setContentType(mimeType);
// Set content size
File file = new File(filename);
response.setContentLength((int) file.length());
//Set headers
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + filename);
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=600");
// Open the file and output streams
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
// Copy the contents of the file to the output stream
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
int count = 0;
while ((count = in.read(buf)) >= 0) {
out.write(buf, 0, count);
}
in.close();
out.close();
Quintin Kerby
CACI, Inc.
| "James Reynolds"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
04/07/2006 15:02
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I have a jsf app that includes many .pdf files of contracts. I've just
been putting them all in the war before deploying to the production
server. There must be a better way to do this. Is it possible to store
these files elsewhere on the web server, outside of the context, and
still be able to link to them?
Thanks
