There are two sides of your problem: the server and the client.

If you use FTPClient in the servlet you need a FTP server on 
the client (Which is not a very common situation). If your 
client doesn't have a FTP server the only option to use FTP 
is the other way round: Build an applet that is an FTP client 
that write to a FTP server on the server.

The second option is to write an applet that posts the files
in the directory to a servlet so you can use the MultiPartRequest
in the servlet.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Adilakshmi Lingam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. März 2001 22:39
> An: Tomcat-User@Jakarta. Apache. Org
> Betreff: Multiple files upload
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We need to upload all the files in a directory from the 
> clients machine to
> the server.
> I've been reading that we could achieve that using the Oreilly's
> MultipartRequest object. But I understood that you can do 
> that file by file
> only but not all the files if the client selects a directory.
> 
> If anyone has experience in uploading multiple files through 
> a servlet, I
> would appreciate if you could guide me in the right direction.
> 
> I was also considering using FTPClient class in sun.net package. But
> couldn't find any documentation for that. Is it advisable to 
> use that? any
> thoughts on FTP from a servlet??
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Lakshmi
> 
> 

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