Display list of files on windows 2000 server

Question

Im wondering if there is an API for this or something to browse the windows 2000 file system via web page. I do not have to browse all directories. The directory will be fixed. I just need to get the file names within a directory and display them on my web page. Once I have the name I can simply host out and delete or move or etc.
maybe someone can guide me as to the name of the API, if it exists Or if one such api doesnt exist.

Answer 1

You can use the standard Java API for this:
@see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/io/File.html
You'd typically do something like:
File myDir = new File("c:/some/directory");
File[] folderContents = myDir.listFile();Then, you can loop through this array to determine if each content of the directory is a file or another folder, and print out each name:
out.println("Contents of " + myDir.getPath() + ":<br>");
//sort the array
java.util.Arrays.sort(folderContents);
//loop through and print each.
for (int i=0; i<folderContents.length; i++){
    if (folderContents.isDirectory()){
out.print("Directory: ");
} else {
out.print("File: ");
//print the filename
out.println(folderContents[i].getName());
out.println("<br>");
Alternatively, for simply the names you could use
String[] folderContents = myDir.list();but you'd only have the names of the directory contents, and no access to whether each item was a sub-directory or a file.
Hope this helped,
-Scott