Hi All, I am building an application wherein the user would have an option to upload files (can be documents or images) and once the files are uploaded the user should be able to download it.
I am using Apache Tomcat 6.0 and JDK1.6. Every thing seems to be OK for the File Upload part but I have some questions in my mind for the File Download Part. Approach 1: Initially I tried to use the BLOB feature of the mysql Database to save the file as a Binary stream in the DB. However after googling it out I found out that there are serious performance issues with BLOB (The file size can be anywhere from 1 KB to 20 MB). Thus we have ruled out this approach. Approach 2: We decided to save the file path in the DB and save the file to the File System. For this, Initially we stored the files under the Root directory of the application but the Tomcat could not recognize the files until it was refreshed/restarted. This can’t be accepted for the realtime environment. One fix we found out for this was to create a new file directory under the web-apps folder of tomcat outside the root directory of the application and save the files in this directory. To make this work we added a new context to the tomcat configuration. Please suggest if this is the best approach to follow. Thanks Akash Singla http://www.TheDaedals.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unable-to-view-uploaded-files-in-Tomcat-till-server-is-refreshed-tp25212993p25212993.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
