Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello. I want the user to be able to upload a file, and then I want to read the file and do some stuff with it.

I searched around and found out that to do this I needed to use a third party library. I found the Commons FileUpload, but I cant seem to make it work. I tried to use the mailing list, but I have gotten no respons.

In the jsp
***uploadPhoto.jsp ***

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ page import="org.apache.commons.fileupload.*"%>
<%@ page import="org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.*"%>
<%@ page import="org.apache.commons.fileupload.portlet.*"%>
<%@ page import="org.apache.commons.collections.*"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.*"%> 
 
<%

	boolean isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);
	out.println("" + isMultipart);
	
//	 Parse the request
	FileItemIterator iter = upload.getItemIterator(request);
	while (iter.hasNext()) {
	    FileItemStream item = iter.next();
	    String name = item.getFieldName();
	    InputStream stream = item.openStream();
	    if (item.isFormField()) {
	        out.println("Form field " + name + " with value "
	            + StreamUtil.asString(stream) + " detected.");
	    } else {
	        out.println("File field " + name + " with file name "
	            + item.getName() + " detected.");
	        // Process the input stream
	    }
	}
%>

The first line returns true. So I know I have a file. But the next one I get an error saying "Cannot find type FileItemIterator.
I tried to include as much libraries as I thought needed, but still the same error.

I have put the commons fileupload jar in my WEB-INF/lib directory, and also in my application.jar file.

Can someone help me please?

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