Read and Write from Remote Shared directory

Question

Hello everyone,
I'm working on an enterprise portal. One of the things i was asked to do is access a remote directory (like "\\machine\share\") and be able to, at least, list the files, download to the portal user any of them, and be able to upload some as well. Also my goal is to create dinamycally a directory inside the shared one for every record I insert into a database for, for example, creating a course (each course has an attachment of files with the schedules, curriculum, etc. in pdf or doc files).
Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to star this? are there any API's, packages or something like that that i can use?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I have allready done that type of Project
I use FTP to Connect remote server. there is api call
com.enterprisedt.net.ftp you can download it free
also you can get the document of that API.
there is som sample code
import com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.*;
class remote
private String localPath,remotePath;
private FTPClient ftpClient;
public remote()
try
localPath="localpath to download";
remotePath="remote path from server";
ftpClient = new FTPClient();
FTPMessageCollector listener = new FTPMessageCollector();
ftpClient.setMessageListener(listener);
ftpClient.setRemoteHost(ip of the remote host);
ftpClient.setTimeout(10 * 60 * 1000);
System.out.println("connecting to the Remote Server....");
ftpClient.connect();
System.out.println("connected to the Remote Server ");
ftpClient.login(username,password);
ftpClient.setConnectMode(FTPConnectMode.PASV);
ftpClient.setType(FTPTransferType.ASCII);
downloadFiles();
catch(FTPException ftpe)
System.out.println(ftpe.toString());
catch(Exception e)
System.out.println(e.toString());
public void downloadFiles()
try
String [] remoteFileList;
String localFileName;
remoteFileList=ftpClient.dir(remotePath + "/");//get the Remote
//file list
for(int j=0;j<remoteFileList.length;j++)
( localFileName =localfile //filter only fileneme from remotFileList[J])
ftpClient.get(localPath + localFileName, remoteFileList[j]);
System.out.println("Successfuly Downloaded " +
ftpClient.quit();
catch(Exception e)
System.out.println(e.toString());
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