Servlet and Applet Communication

[vishwas madhuvarshi]

Can I access an applet from a servlet and open a filedialogbox from the applet on client machine?

[Sagar Surana]

yes u can surely a access applet from servlet
use URL class and its subclass for the same( e.g. URLConnection)
u can get help for it in any java servlets book
use object passing for it
if still problem arises do contact me in the forum
all the best

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Sagar Surana
optimist

[Sagar Sharma]

is your question about the Security issues that u may have to handle?
sagar

[vishwas madhuvarshi]

Yes. I have yet not succeeded in opening a filedialogbox from an applet and as per security restrictions it is not possible. How can I transfer a file from client's machine to my servlet. RMI is not possible as IE does not support it. Any idea?

[Kevin Mukhar]

This sounds like a situation where an HTML page would be a better user interface. The HTML <form> can have a field which allows the user to select a file from the local file system for upload to the server. See example 17 at http://www.servlets.com/jsp/examples/ch04/index.html