Better design for applet in 2 phases

Question

Hi,
a client asked me to write two applets :
first applet will need to select some local files and saves there full paths into a text file .
in a 3rd phase this text file will be passed to a second applet to do work with each file in the list.
the need to split this into 2 applets is that we will have an intermediate 2nd phase where user will need to do some payment processing etc.if he/she passes payment phase he/she will be redirected to second applet to work with files list saved in text file from 1st applet.
do you think using a text file to save file paths and pass it to second applet is a good solution?
is there any other clean and elegant solution to pass a list of local files path to a second applet later in another phase .(2 applets won't probably communicate directly b/c there will an intermediary phase a php script )
thanks.

Answer 1

Once you've sent some files through an applet, through a PHP script, and thus they're now on the server, it seems really odd to me that you'd do further processing in another applet. More likely you'd want to do all or most further processing on the server.