Hi,

If you wish to upload files in the local context of your project, then you may first create a folder under WEB_INF. call it anything you want. Then considering the fact that you are a beginner, I would suggest that you create a servlet and call it from the page using method POST. Within the servlet, there would be two options for you to explore:- 1. saving the file uploaded into the database, which would require the use of either JDBC or JPA, whichever is known to you. 2. saving the file in a folder.

code is given below:-

package pack;

import java.io.*;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.util.Scanner;

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.annotation.MultipartConfig;

import java.sql.*;

/**
 * Servlet implementation class uploadServlet
 */
@WebServlet("/upload.do")
@MultipartConfig
public class uploadServlet extends HttpServlet {

    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Part p1=request.getPart("title");
        Part p2=request.getPart("filesel");
        InputStream is=p2.getInputStream();
        Scanner sc=new Scanner(p1.getInputStream());
        String title=sc.next();
        sc=new Scanner(p2.getContentType());
        String type=sc.next();
        try
        {
            String path=request.getServletContext().getRealPath("folder url where u want to store your uploaded file");
            FileOutputStream fos=new FileOutputStream(path);
            byte buf[]=new byte[is.available()];
            is.read(buf);
            fos.write(buf);
            fos.flush();
            fos.close();
            // use this part only if you wish to store files in database
            Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.Driver");
            Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:databasename");
            PreparedStatement ps=con.prepareStatement("insert in table (picName,picPath) values(?,?) ");
            ps.setString(1, title);
            ps.setString(2, path);
            ps.execute();
            ps.close();
            con.close();
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        }
    }

Note that the part where I set the path for storage has to be either one of local context as mentioned before or it can be a folder created anywhere in your machine.

Hope this solves your query.

Regards, Abhineet Verma