Creating a file in servlet?

Question

Hello,
I want to read the content of a website and store them
in a file on my local disk, but I can't do it with servlet.
In my servlet doGet method I have:
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
     try
     URL xml_file = new URL("http://localhost:8080/xml/search.xml");
     InputStream in = xml_file.openStream();
     InputStreamReader read = new InputStreamReader(in);
     FileOutputStream output_file = new FileOutputStream(new File("xml.xml"));
     int c;
     while ((c=read.read())!=-1)
          servletOutStr.println(c);
          output_file.write(c);
Doesn't      :FileOutputStream output_file = new FileOutputStream(new
File("xml.xml"));" should create an empty file "xml.xml" in the same
folder? Or it only works only in the main method?
Thank you in advance for your reply.

Answer 1

The servlet is running on a web server, so it creates the file there. But when you say "in the same folder", the truth is that it creates the file in the servlet container's current directory, not in the same folder as something you were thinking of. I don't understand why you would use a servlet to do this task when an ordinary Java application would work.