Where do I get the Request-Object

Question

Dear Friends,
I want to upload a file via HTTP multipart-formdata request (POST).
For that reason I use the FileUpload-API:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/fileupload/using.html
Everything is described perfectly and I am very happy that there is such a project!
But they didn't write how I could create a new Request-Object.
How do I do that?
Are there are different types of Request-Objects?
Here is my test-code so far:
public class FileUploader12 {
    List items = new ArrayList();
    /** Creates a new instance of FileUploader12 */
    public FileUploader12() {
// Create a factory for disk-based file items
FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
// Create a new file upload handler
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
// Parse the request
Request request = new Request();
/*FileItem */ items = upload.parseRequest(request);
//Create a progress listener
ProgressListener progressListener = new ProgressListener(){
   private long megaBytes = -1;
   public void update(long pBytesRead, long pContentLength, int pItems) {
       long mBytes = pBytesRead / 1000000;
       if (megaBytes == mBytes) {
           return;
       megaBytes = mBytes;
       System.out.println("We are currently reading item " + pItems);
       if (pContentLength == -1) {
           System.out.println("So far, " + pBytesRead + " bytes have been read.");
       } else {
           System.out.println("So far, " + pBytesRead + " of " + pContentLength
                              + " bytes have been read.");
}Thank you very much!
With best Regards
MfG
Inno

Answer 1

Yes, please understand that commons-fileupload is intended to receive uploaded files on the server, NOT to upload the files to a server.
If you want to perform a form post from Java code, you should use the commons-httpclient package: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/