Components

To provide access to various file systems, NetFile has three components:

• NetFile Java 1 Applet. Has an AWT-based user interface. For use with older browsers that cannot support Java 2.

• NetFile Java 2 Applet. Has a Swing-based user interface. For use with browsers that support Java plug-ins.

• NetFile servlet(s). Two NetFile servlets are present in the web container, one for each kind of NetFile applet. The servlets are responsible for connecting to different types of file systems, carrying out the operations that NetFile is configured to handle, and sending the information back to the applets for display.

NetFile is internationalized and provides access to file systems irrespective of their locale (character encoding).

NetFile uses Access Manager to store its own profile, as well as user settings and preferences. You administer NetFile through the Portal Server administration console.