thumbnail in jsp

i want to display an image in jsp .. the image is stored in the database as image...

The following link will help you.

I've used this link for solving the same problem

Image in jsp

DO NOT use a JSP to stream the image as described in that article. That's a house of cards that will fall on you hard. Use a servlet instead.

You can use an <img> tag in the JSP that specifies a src attribute that references the servlet.

Could you explain that more with an example. Maybe I could also use your advice?

JSPs should never be used to serve non-text data. Please see this article to find out why.

Rather, a servlet -- possibly using the help of other classess -- should be used to get the image data and serve it as the response. Be sure to set the appropriate response headers accordingly.

In your HTML page -- whether it's generated from JSP or not is moot -- you would use an <img> tag just like any other image. Except that the src attribute of the <img> tag references the image-serving servlet rather than an image file.

So you like more the following solution

Using dynamic images in a JSP.

That's the idea, but that article is 7 years old and shows it. Statements like "you could do the database access in the JSP itself" have no place in modern architectures.

Bear Bibeault thanks for your reply

I understand all my database access is done at one helper class.

I will use this idea for making a utility servlet which will retrieve the images for the different jsp's.

Thanks for your input.

I also face the same problem. I want to display these images as thumbnails dats means i want to show dat by reducing it size, height and width.

Originally posted by Dilshan Edirisuriya:
I also face the same problem. I want to display these images as thumbnails dats means i want to show dat by reducing it size, height and width.

This thread might be of interest to you:
http://www.coderanch.com/t/345045/GUI/java/Resizing-Image-Java-vs-PHP

Thank you Ben it is a very useful link

Your welcome.

Also, if you want to see an example app that uses a servlet to stream images to a browser, I have one on my site.
http://simple.souther.us
Look for Simple Stream.