How to access remote folder files without using ftp or tftp using java

[sara vana]

How to access remote folder files without using ftp or tftp using java

[Greg Charles]

Well, there are many ways. At the OS layer, you could mount the remote file system as a network drive. Then Java could access the files the same way as it does local files.

Back in the day though, I implemented a remote file browser. It had an RMI server on the machine with the remote files and an RMI client on the client machine. Then I could open Java's file browser on the client, but actually see files from the remote machine.

[Ireneusz Kordal]

If you only want to read a file content without browsing folders etc.
and if you know an exact url of the file, you can do it with a few lines of code,
here is a working example:

    public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
        String s;
        URL url = new URL("http://www.kordirko.mtvk.pl/test.txt");
        BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
        try {
            while (null != (s = rd.readLine())) {
                System.out.println(s);
            }
        } finally {
            rd.close();
        }
    }