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- Installation - Download4J is a 100% JAVA/JSP/Servlets download component. A [WAR] archive is available to make Download4J installation easier. It needs a servlet engine SERVLETS 2.2+ API compliant or a J2EE1.2+ compliant application server. ZIP and TAR.GZ archives are also available, uncompress and deploy them manually in your servlet engine if you're not familiar with WAR archive. Any problem ? Read the [FAQ] first. Still a problem ? Post your question to our online JSP Forum.
WAR Installation
Download4J is available as a WAR archive. It's a SERVLETS 2.2 standard archive for Web Applications. What does it mean ?... It means that WAR installation is as easy as a copy/paste, regardless to the servlet engine vendor. To install Download4J WAR archive, copy download4j.war under the webapps folder of your servlet engine before running it. That's all :-) Note that webapps folder depends on your servlet engine. It could be webapps/, applications/ ... The WAR file will be automatically uncompressed under download4j/ folder. Note that application servers (JRun, Websphere, Weblogic, ...) provide a graphical console to install and deploy WAR files. Run Download4J for the first time : Documentation : http://yourserver.com/download4j/documentation/index.html Sample 1 : http://yourserver.com/download4j/foldersample.jsp Sample 2 : http://yourserver.com/download4j/zipsample.jsp Sample 2 : http://yourserver.com/download4j/databasesample.jsp Note that at this step, Download4J is running but not configured yet. Once launched for the first time, stop the servlet engine to setup Download4J (JSP samples and/or configuration file) as you need. Browse the configuration section to learn more about Download4J parameters. The Download4J WAR archive is downloadable at Download4J HomePage.
FAQ
How to install Download4J ZIP package ? Depending on your servlet engine or Application server, you have to create a new web application directory and then uncompress Download4J ZIP or TAR.GZ package into this directory. Is there a JSP sample that work without any customization ? Yes, foldersample.jsp is a ready-to-run sample. Matching download source is downloadroot/ folder under WEB-INF/ folder. All is configured and included to make it run without any configuration. I get an Exception when running databasesample.jsp ? Check that : - Your JDBC driver is available in the web application CLASSPATH. - Your RDBMS is up. - Download4J configuration file matches to the JDBC driver and URL, database account and schema. How to reload configuration file without restarting the servlet engine ? You can't. You have to restart the servlet engine each time you modify the configuration file. We plan to add dynamic reload later. How to implement my own DownloadServlet using Download4J ? See API & Design section for a sample source of a DownloadServlet. How to implement my own SQL requests into Download4J ? See DownloadMyDB add-on to learn how to override Download4J DownloadSource database implementation. You will see how to pass a custom parameter from JSP to DownloadSource too. How to download files with chinese filename ? Checkout and install MultilanguageLink add-on. If your files are in a database, depending on encoding, you might have to implement a DownloadSource to translate HTTP request encoding to database encoding. Counters are lost when I restart my servlet engine ? Yes, Download4J does not record download hits in file. However you could implement this feature thanks to the DownloadBean notification system.

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