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The sample code attached below is a complete example for uploading multiple files using flash cs3 and java. After much searching I could not find a complete Flash File uploading tutorial that utilized java; most if not all are for php. This flash interface provides progress for each file independently, and upon completion can notify a javascript function. The files are sent to a simple JAVA servlet where they are saved to the local file system.

For the java servlet there are two library requirements:
commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar
commons-io-1.3.2.jar

They are included in the web/WEB-INF/lib folder. The source files are saved as a Netbeans 6.7 project with Glassfish set as the target server. It is simple to open the project and change the target server. Both the compiled flash and source file are in the web folder.

I extracted two settings to variables listed in the index.html file so that this could be used without recompiling/editing the flash file. The first variable url is the address of the java servlet to send the files to. The second variable is f  and is the name of the javascript function to call when each file is uploaded. f is optional. These variables need to be set 3 times in the index.html file. See the file for further documentation.

I expect to update the source code slightly over the next couple weeks. I will replace the zip file with the latest as updates are completed.

source files

 I am going to go over setting up Glassfish Enterprise v2.1 in a windows clustered high availability environment. For this we will be using two Windows 2003 servers with two network interface cards (NIC) in each server that are network loadbalanced, 2 instances of IIS as the web container and 4 instances of glassfish with HADB behind IIS. You may ask why, and the reason is simply those were the technologies I had to work with; my task was to move from JBOSS to Glassfish. I will attempt to go over this setup in great detail, so as anyone with a basic understanding of these technologies should be able to get this running. For all of the images in the post, click on them for a full size version.

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Just a quick note about a simple but annoying error I encountered when porting an app to glassfish; The code in question was as follows:

 
     ... 
    Charset charset = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
    CharsetEncoder encoder = charset.newEncoder();
    ByteBuffer bbuf = encoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(str));
    SecretKeySpec key = new SecretKeySpec( KEY_BASE, "DES" );

    private static Cipher ecipher = Cipher.getInstance( "DES");
    ecipher.init( Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key ); 
    byte[] enc = ecipher.doFinal( bbuf.array() );
     ...

The code above just converts a string (stored as str here) to UTF-8 then encrypts it using DES. Equivalently you could use str.getBytes() for the UTF conversion. The code above worked fine on JBOSS, and worked fine stand alone. It even worked on my glassfish test server, however when deployed on glassfish enterprise I started getting the following stacktrace: Continue reading

There are many reasons you may want some of your content outside of the application server root. Perhaps you wish to share the content between applications or even webservers, or maybe you temporarily write data from a database to be served. Regardless, serving static content in glassfish is extremely easy. There are two ways to accomplish this; at the server level and at the application level.

Server level

First we will look at the server level, this will make your information available server wide, outside of any application context. Lets say you have images you wish to serve in the directory C:\media. In the glassfish admin console expand configuration > http service > virtual servers. Select ‘server’ then scroll to the bottom and select ‘add property’.

For name use: alternatedocroot_1, for value use: from=/media/* dir=C:/

Keep in mind that glassfish expects the directory in the URL pattern to exist, so the from= is not just the URL pattern, but it is also the path relative to the dir=.

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