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UnZipping Occurs in Server System only

 
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Hi,
Im new to Java. In my web application, I have to download a zip file from ftp server and unzip that file to local system.I have written a servlet code and got the output successfully in server system(my system).The problem is when i run this servlet from client (another system),the zip file get unzips in server system only.not in client. I dont know where is the problem and what is the problem.. I could not able to find any solution. Please provide me some solutions or suggestions.Any body have got these kind of errors? I have used Streams to download and unzip a zip file and an input dialog box in swing to get destination folder path from client (to store the unzipped files). Below the complete code.
 
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All the Java code in a servlet -- every line of it -- runs on the server. None of it runs on the client. A servlet's only "GUI" is HTML. You can't put Swing code in a servlet. If you need to have Java code run on the client, then you need to use either an applet that can be embedded in the servlet's HTML output, or a separate Swing application that the user needs to install separately; either of these would have to explicitly communicate with the server via HTTP.

Since your followup questions are all going to relate to servlet application architecture, and aren't really I/O related, I'm going to move this to our "servlets" forum.
 
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Please do not cross-post the same question in multiple forums. It wastes people's time when multiple redundant conversations take place.
 
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Let's leave this one open; the other one in I/O is closed.
 
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You might want to create a servlet that on request from client would get the required zip from the FTP server and then stream it out to the client's response.The client can then expand the jar/zip in his local system.

Server would just act as the mediator between the requesting client and the FTP server.
 
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