How to store the PDF file in the server side?

[Simpson Kumar]

Hi, we have a struts application to read the data and displaying a PDF file.
and we need to follow the process like in the following.

1) read the data from database and write into the PDF file.
2) store this file in a location (where ever it is)
3) on client side, when we call the particular action, the PDF file should open from the location.

I can store the file in a physical location, but I dont know how to grab that file from that place to display.

I can open the file, if the file is in server side
In the Struts-config.xml, I wrote like this and working

  (<forward name="success"
                               path="/pages/pdf/POTwireframe-v2a.pdf">
                       </forward>  

Here How to store the PDF file in the ("/pages/pdf") location, which is in server side?

[David Newton]

Save it there?

What, precisely, is the issue?

[Simpson Kumar]

Im unable to store the file in the server side, but I can store into the physical location (Ex:- File path = "C:\pages\pdf")
but I need to store the file in the server side (Ex:- WebConten\pages\pdf)
I dont how to store in the server side

[Paul Clapham]

You don't store it inside the web application. You store it somewhere else. Create a directory on the server specifically for storing the PDFs.

[Andy Lileston]

I would recommend looking into the Apache Commons Upload utility. Some Struts distros come with it as an example webapp.