Access a resource (for example, Image) in Appserver

[venkat paruchuri]

I am new to using Sun ONE application server. My requirement is to capture a remote image file through EJB and save it on the hard disk rather than saving to databse and should be used by webserver (Tomcat in Sun ONE) to display the preview of created image to the user. In order to fulfill my requirement, which location the image file should be created on the box (where Appserver was installed) and how to refer to this image file from webserver using http protocol to display the preview? I would really appreciate if somebody could help me ASAP.


Thanks in advance.

[Stas Sokolov]

As far as I know EJB container does not allow to access local file system. But
web container (were all your servlets are run) has direct access to the file system. So I advice you use the following pattern.
- Create some directory in the application server workstation.
- Create reference to this directory in the application deployment descriptor
- Use reference to get actual directory from the servlet that actually load and store image.
It probably make deployment a little bit more complex. But I resolved the similar problem (image preview) using this pattern.