It's a HTTP request, you use an input stream to receive the data from
client then same the data on the server. FormDataMultiPart also contains
some meta-data including file name etc.
2013/3/2 <terri.liebowitz_at_gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> I apologize if I'm double posting. I'm confused about whether
> users_at_jersey.java.net is the same mailing list as
> users_at_jersey.dev.java.net (which has a nabble archive). If they aren't
> the same, which one should I be using?
>
> Anyhow, my real questions, are these: I'm new to jersey, using
> release 1.16, and want to use FormDataMultiPart to upload large files
> and associated data. My understanding is that jersey will cache the
> file data on disk and give me an InputStream to read from. I'm going
> to have to write those streams to tmp files in order to process the
> files with some command line tools before I read them in again and
> write them to their final destinations in our database. If jersey
> already has the data on disk, I'd like to skip the extra copy and just
> get the File instead of an InputStream. Is that possible?
>
> A second question I have is: I assume jersey takes responsibility for
> closing the InputStream, but would like to verify that.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Terri
>