Several types of Web applications require the ability to browse and choose files and directories available on the server side.
Since the information about the directories and files to browse is available remotely, it has to be displayed in a convenient format to let the users easily tell what they want to do.
This class provides a solution that uses a Flash applet to provide a greater level of interactivity to browse server directories, retrieving all the necessary information from the server without requiring frequent page reloading.
This class can generate a listing of the files of a server side directory.
The listing is generated in a XML format that can be served of a Flash applet that interacts with the Web server to browse the directories and show the file listings in detail.
The directory XML listing returns the names of all files and directories, the entry type (file, directory, link, etc.), the file size, the permissions, creation and last modification dates.