While social media websites such Facebook and LinkedIn made it incredibly easy for a user to upload image files, the back-end implementation of such a feature has been anything but easy. Prior to the ...

In this example, we will compare the built-in, multipart form handling capabilities of the standard Jakarta Servlet API with the facilities provided through the Apache Commons FileUpload library.

The good news is that JDK 7 introduces a whole new file management API that is intended for Java, but of course significantly and consequentially enhances Groovy’s file system handling capabilities.