diff --git a/YACOSWeb/WebContent/WEB-INF/yacos-servlet.xml b/YACOSWeb/WebContent/WEB-INF/yacos-servlet.xml
index 6e454d1..b9bc1ba 100644
--- a/YACOSWeb/WebContent/WEB-INF/yacos-servlet.xml
+++ b/YACOSWeb/WebContent/WEB-INF/yacos-servlet.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 	
 	
 	<bean id="multipartResolver" class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver">
-		<property name="maxUploadSize" value="100000" />
+		<property name="maxUploadSize" value="10000000" />
 	</bean>
 
 
diff --git a/YACOSWeb/src/org/yacos/web/author/controller/SArticleController.java b/YACOSWeb/src/org/yacos/web/author/controller/SArticleController.java
index 4ec6e3a..2d774b7 100644
--- a/YACOSWeb/src/org/yacos/web/author/controller/SArticleController.java
+++ b/YACOSWeb/src/org/yacos/web/author/controller/SArticleController.java
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 package org.yacos.web.author.controller;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import javax.servlet.ServletException;
@@ -23,7 +29,7 @@ public class SArticleController extends SimpleFormController {
 	private IArticleManager articleManager; 
 
 	public ModelAndView onSubmit(Object command)
-	throws ServletException {
+	throws ServletException, IllegalStateException, IOException {
 
 		String title = ((FormSubmission) command).getTitle();
 		String theme = ((FormSubmission) command).getTheme();
@@ -35,12 +41,20 @@ public class SArticleController extends SimpleFormController {
 		
 		System.out.println(liste);
 		
-
         // let's see if there's content there
         MultipartFile file = ((FormSubmission) command).getFile();
         if (file == null) {
              // hmm, that's strange, the user did not upload anything
         }
+        
+        byte b[] = file.getBytes();
+        File file2 = new File(file.getOriginalFilename());
+     
+        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file2);
+        
+        fos.write(b);
+        fos.close();
+        
 
 		Article a = new Article(0, title, theme, "", mainauthor, null, 1);
 		articleManager.addArticle(a);