The basic mechanism for sending information from a web browser to a web server involves the use of HTML forms to collect the information and server-side scripts to process the information. With the adoption of the RFC 1867 standard, this mechanism of sending information has been extended to support files. AppletFile simply takes this one step further and improves the file upload capabilities with a Java Applet.

To get started using AppletFile you first need to create or modify an existing HTML form to add file upload. Next you will need to create or modify an existing server-side script to process the file upload on the server.

The sections below describe how to use the many capabilities of AppletFile to create your own upload application.

Adding file upload to your HTML form
Processing the file upload on the server
Supporting IE 3.02
Minimizing user interaction
Displaying the results of the upload
Hiding the file list
Validating the file list
Performing authenticated uploads
Optimizing file uploads
Scripting file uploads

For a complete working example, see the Basic Upload sample.