Example 7.9 MultipartEncodeFilter - Standard Filter Strategy public class MultipartEncodeFilter extends BaseEncodeFilter { public MultipartEncodeFilter() { } public void doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest servletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse servletResponse,javax.servlet.FilterChain filterChain) throws java.io.IOException, javax.servlet.ServletException { String contentType = servletRequest.getContentType(); // Only filter this request if it is multipart // encoding if (contentType.startsWith( "multipart/form-data")){ try { String uploadFolder = getFilterConfig().getInitParameter( "UploadFolder"); if (uploadFolder == null) uploadFolder = "."; /** The MultipartRequest class is: * Copyright (C) 2001 by Jason Hunter * . All rights reserved. **/ MultipartRequest multi = new MultipartRequest(servletRequest, uploadFolder, 1 * 1024 * 1024 ); Enumeration params = multi.getParameterNames(); while (params.hasMoreElements()) { String name = (String)params.nextElement(); String value = multi.getParameter(name); servletRequest.setAttribute(name, value); } Enumeration files = multi.getFileNames(); while (files.hasMoreElements()) { String name = (String)files.nextElement(); String filename = multi.getFilesystemName(name); String type = multi.getContentType(name); File f = multi.getFile(name); // At this point, do something with the // file, as necessary } } catch (IOException e) { LogManager.logMessage( "error reading or saving file"+ e); } } // end if filterChain.doFilter(servletRequest, servletResponse); } // end method doFilter() }