The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Originally posted by Tim Holloway:
I don't think what you call a "file system" is quite what we'd formally call a file system, but I hope I can interpret your needs OK..
There are some GUI FTP apps for Windows (and for that matter for Linux) that can handle that if Java doesn't need to be part of the picture.
On the other hand, if you're trying to do something like shovel directories of files into BLOBs in an Oracle database, then that's not what you need.
A signed applet can drag-n-drop file folders and/or support selecting a directory from the standard file dialog in conjunction with file content copying. Mind you, the Java standard file dialog is just as non-intuititive when it comes to selecting directories as its counterparts on many OS's (including Windows) and languages, but the ability is there.
So one thing you can do is implement an applet that shoves the data over via HTTP tunnelling requests (one request per file) in response made to selection(s) on its GUI.
Originally posted by Mike Curwen:
I'd be highly suspicious of the IFS being anything but a signed applet. If it's truly drag and drop, then it almost has to be, doesn't it ?