Copy file from one server to another

Question

I need to copy a text file from one server to another (both the servers are Linux). How do I do that in Java?

Answer 1

If you need to copy files from accessible file systems go with Andreas' answer.

If you want a general approach that abstracts from the protocol underneath, have a look at Apache Commons VFS. It provides a common api for resources available through a number of protocols:

• FTP
• Local Files
• HTTP and HTTPS
• SFTP
• Temporary Files
• Zip, Jar and Tar (uncompressed, tgz or tbz2)
• gzip and bzip2
• res
• ram
• mime

Answer 2

Easist if you're able to use apache commons-io: the FileUtils class has convenient methods to copy files:

FileUtils.copyFileToDirectory(srcFile, targetDirectory);

(as you talked about text files I assume, your application has access to both file systems)