SC schrieb: > I am running a GWT application on a tomcat container on a linux > server. In one part of the code on the server side, I am trying to > search for some files within a directory structure which is on the > network .
[...] > I don't get any errors or exceptions from the File class object in > Java saying access denied. File isn't accessing the file but is the representation of a file in a file system allowing you to query informations about it, like the ability to read etc. > However when I debug and run fileObject.canRead() and > fileObject.canWrite it returns false. So trying to open a FileInputStream or FileOutputStream will throw an IOException. > I cannot query the dir structure > to look for the file through the application when running onlinux. The > directory and the sub dirs have the correct permissions on them. > > Could this be a GwT running on tomcat and linux issue? No. Most likely Tomcat is running as a unprivileged user (like nobody) or installed a SecurityManager preventing you from accessing parts of the file-system outside the sandbox. Regards, Lothar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
