Question

The following is the JSP code.

How the code can be modified such that the location of the file that is selected using “Browse” option must be passed to a java program named new.java

Please advise.

<form action="abc.jsp" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" id="form1"> 

        Upload File:
       <input name="file" type="file" id="file"><br><br>
       <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"/><br><br>
       <input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Reset"/>   
 </form>

The html code above shows only the name of the file and not the location. And I dont even know how to pass the name of the file to java code itself.

Answer 1

In your action you must specify a servlet/jsp that handles the multipart request. It better be a Servlet (JSP is meant for presentation, not processing).

So, we have a Servlet (public class NewServlet extends HttpServlet), with a doPost(request, response) method. At that point you can use commons-fileupload to handle the incoming file. Here is the user guide with a lot of code to just copy-paste.

The servlet tutorial is a good place to start.