Regarding WAR files

Question

Hi All,
I have developed a project for my client which involves uploading images. At present I am storing images within the project, i.e it gets stored within the build folder inside a folder named images. While working in my machine with Netbeans IDE, if I clean and rebuild the project, the images which I had uploaded before also gets deleted. I could actually store the images in a folder outside the project, but it doesn't make sense since while hosting with an external hosting server (like eukhost), I have been allocated a space and I doubt if I could store those images wherever I wish to. This was the problem I faced while developing the project within my machine. So the solution I could find out was never to clean the project.
But now while hosting, if I make slight changes to any files, I will have to deploy a new WAR file. And since my images are stored within the build folder, every time I create a new WAR file, the existing images would get deleted, since for creating the war, don't we have to clean and build the project (this is what I have read somewhere).
I hope you have understood my question. So what is the best solution for me to deploy new war files, so that the images that have been previously uploaded doesn't get deleted.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

816767 wrote:
While uploading images, I could give the absolute path, but while fetching the images, I need to give the relative path, right?What???
Let me clarify what I think that statement means:
"When I store (in a directory on the server) an image which has been uploaded, I could give the absolute path, but when I read (from that same directory) an image to be downloaded, I could not give the absolute path."
As such that's obviously not a correct statement. So I must have misinterpreted what you wrote. Perhaps I didn't understand what it means to "fetch an image".