writing to Temp files

Hi,
I've some data coming in the request of a servlet from Flex front end. I've to write code to create a temp folder in my application context and save that data from request to temporary file in this temp folder.
Can anybody guide me on how do i create file names from java code.

Class java.io.File has two methods named createTempFile(...).
Have a look at the documentation.

Thanks Jesper,
I've named the file by appending the time stamp to a string.
Now my application is deployed in Tomcat server in my sandbox setup & will be deployed in WAS in production.
I need to place these files in some folder say temp in my application root(something like: /webapps/appname/temp). i don't know how doo i point to that location.

Why don't you just do something like this:

Originally posted by Ruchee Goyal:
I've named the file by appending the time stamp to a string.

This sort of thing is a bad idea. It works most of the time, but you can easily get occasional errors when two files happen to get created with the same time-stamp. Computers are easily fast enough to process more than one during a particular millisecond.

Use createTempFile() as suggested. If you really can't do that, use a serial number or something like that, but not timestamps.

Hi

What he is actally asking for is a way to create a temporary directory, not a temporary file.

I'm also trying to create a temporary directory for a test case but havn't found any info on that. I have found alot of info on how to create temp files though

Does anyone here know how to create a temporary directory?

Best regards,
Mattias

In future, please DontWakeTheZombies.

I don't think Java has a facility for making temporary directories.