dispaly images from file system in a web page

[Prabhakar Aluri]

Is there a way available to display the images stored in a file system path in a JSP page using direct reference with <IMG> tag.

E.g: <img src="file system path"+"image name" />. Since these images are of bigger size, its difficult to place them in web context

quick help appreciated

[Surya Kant]

No it is not possible.
Even if you specify the file system's location in img tag it will search in the computer where your JSPs are running.
So always all paths should be relative to your web application.
Anyve you can do this using servlet.

[Bear Bibeault]

Surya Kant wrote: it will search in the computer where your JSPs are running.

That is not correct. File systems paths address files on the system where the browser is running. JSPs run on the server.

But yes, to serve files that lie outside a web app, a servlet can be used to read the file ad stream it as the response.

[Bauke Scholtz]

Create a servlet which does the task. Here's an example: http://balusc.blogspot.com/2007/04/imageservlet.html

[Prabhakar Aluri]

Thanks for the responses posted. Yes I read the files from a Servlet and streaming them in response.

Appreciate the help.