Re: Making a Database Image Show Up on a Jsp Page

2005-08-26 Thread Philip Cote

Thank you, Wade and everyone else.  ServletOutputStream worked perfectly.

Wade Chandler wrote:


--- Edmund Urbani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 


Philip Cote wrote:

   


I'm trying to write to binary data from a MySQL
 

database into a jpeg 
   


file so I can show it on a jsp page but I'm not
 

having much luck.  My 
   


bean can create files outside the servlet / jsp
 

context using the 
   


usual java.io classes.  As I understand it,
 

java.io classes aren't 
   


allowed for EJBs.  Does this apply to plain java
 

beans as well?  If 
   


so, what are the alternatives for doing what I'm
 


trying to do?
   


your java classes can do anything the VM process is
permitted to do, 
unless you have restricted using a security manager
and the 
catalina.policy file (i think eg. debian tomcat
packages do that by 
default). i'm not sure just jow exactly you are
trying to serve those 
images to the client and why you want to write them
(temporarily) to the 
file system. i would probably want to send them back
directly from 
memory after reading them from the DB as a blob
(much like Larry Meadors 
just suggested while i was writing this ...).


Edmund


   


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I have never heard that EJB could not use java.io
classes.  That wouldn't make much sense.  Even JDBC
some times needs to use streams for it's data. 
ByteArrayOutputStream and StringWriter are at times
needed to perform a task as well for certain things. 
Sometimes people will make a servlet like this then

address this servlet for all images.  You'll need to
set the content type of your return and stream the
bytes out of your DB to the response output in your
servlet.  Depending on the type of field you have used
in the DB you can do something like:

java.io.InputStream in = null;
try
{
  in = resultSet.getBinaryStream(columnName);
  java.io.BufferedInputStream bin =
  new java.io.BufferedInputStream(in);
  java.io.BufferedOutputStream bout =
  new java.io. 
BufferedOutputStream(response.getServletOutputStream());

 int iread = bin.read();
 while(iread!=-1)
 {
   bout.write(iread);
   iread = bin.read();
 }
 bout.flush();
}
finally
{
  if(in!=null)
  {
 in.close();
  }
}

Just be sure you have your content type setup and all
you need to do there.  Then you can simply have a
servlet to read images and use as the endpoint in your
IMG tags.  It's not so bad.

Wade

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Re: Making a Database Image Show Up on a Jsp Page

2005-08-26 Thread Philip Cote



Caldarale, Charles R wrote:

From: Philip Cote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Subject: Re: Making a Database Image Show Up on a Jsp Page


My only sticking point is how I'm supposed to write that 
binary data to the jpeg file.
   



I think the point people are trying to make is that you don't need to
write any file at all.  The bytes of the image should be output as
part of the response stream, using the appropriate MIME type.  Or maybe
I don't really understand the problem.

- Chuck

 

No, it was me who didn't understand the answer.  I never thought of 
servlets being used like that.  I've always thought of them as tools 
that collected data from the appropriate sources and then rendered text 
and html and that's it.  The whole idea of streaming binary data based 
on a different MIME type than that never occurred to me before.  When I 
finally got it, the solution came together perfectly.  It was pretty cool.



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Making a Database Image Show Up on a Jsp Page

2005-08-24 Thread Philip Cote
I'm trying to write to binary data from a MySQL database into a jpeg 
file so I can show it on a jsp page but I'm not having much luck.  My 
bean can create files outside the servlet / jsp context using the usual 
java.io classes.  As I understand it, java.io classes aren't allowed for 
EJBs.  Does this apply to plain java beans as well?  If so, what are the 
alternatives for doing what I'm trying to do?



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Re: Making a Database Image Show Up on a Jsp Page

2005-08-24 Thread Philip Cote



Edmund Urbani wrote:


Philip Cote wrote:

I'm trying to write to binary data from a MySQL database into a jpeg 
file so I can show it on a jsp page but I'm not having much luck.  My 
bean can create files outside the servlet / jsp context using the 
usual java.io classes.  As I understand it, java.io classes aren't 
allowed for EJBs.  Does this apply to plain java beans as well?  If 
so, what are the alternatives for doing what I'm trying to do?


your java classes can do anything the VM process is permitted to do, 
unless you have restricted using a security manager and the 
catalina.policy file (i think eg. debian tomcat packages do that by 
default). i'm not sure just jow exactly you are trying to serve those 
images to the client and why you want to write them (temporarily) to 
the file system.


I'm using Windows XP.  I checked the tomcat configuration box.  I'm 
starting Tomcat with the default settings with Tomcat security off.  I 
believe my JVM is also set to default mode though I'm not really sure 
how to verify this.


i would probably want to send them back directly from memory after 
reading them from the DB as a blob (much like Larry Meadors just 
suggested while i was writing this ...).


I'm really not sure you mean by send them back directly drom memory.  
Does this have to do with setting the res.setContentType() to 
image/jpeg rather than text/html.  Because if that's the case, then 
I'm definitely in alien territory.  I did try that and it caused firefox 
to want to download a 0 byte long file. 

The bright side is Larry is right.  Writing the servlet was a breeze as 
was getting the binary data out of the database.  It was easy to have my 
servlet forward over to the jsp page where the image would actually be 
displayed.  I'm even getting my bean on that page to pull database 
records.  My only sticking point is how I'm supposed to write that 
binary data to the jpeg file .  Is this more an issue of my 
understanding of the java.io libraries?  I thought I understood them but 
maybe I'm missing the boat on this one.



Edmund

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Re: tomcat 5.5, jdk1.5 on user mode debian stable hangs after a few days

2005-08-07 Thread Philip Cote
Good for you!  Glad it all worked out.

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 02:25 +0100, Martin Wood wrote:
 Just to let people know that my application has been running happily for
 nearly a week now.
 
 I actually replaced the JDK1.5 with the blackdown 1.4.2 and installed
 the compatibility extensions for tomcat.
 
 since then its been fine.
 
 martin
 
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Re: close pooled conection-by value or by reference

2005-07-23 Thread Philip Cote
connection.isClosed() should return a boolean telling you whether or not
the connection was released.

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 14:18 -0700, Tony Smith wrote:
 I think this is a classic java question: Pass by
 reference or by value. I have a DatabaseManager class
 which takes care of get conection from connection pool
 and release the connectoin. I am not sure about the
 release part. Here is my code:
 
 class MyMainClass
 
 public static final void main(String[] args){
 
 Connection connection =
 DatabaseManager.getConnection();
 
 //jdbc work.
 
DatabaseManager.closeConnection(connection);
 ...
 }
 
 
 public class DatabaseManager {
  
 public static Connection getConnection(){
 Connection connection =
 getConectionFromDataSource();
 
return connection;
 }
 
 public static void closeConnection(Connection
 conn){
   if (conn != null){
   try{
   conn.close();
   }catch(SQLException sqle){
   sqle.printStackTrace();
   }
   }
   conn = null;
 }}
 
 
 I am not sure if the connection is released
 
 
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Re: Tomcat Architecture

2005-06-24 Thread Philip Cote
It helps to think of the relationship in a sort of box-inside-a-box
relationship.

For example, the Server(Tomcat) contains the Service.  The Service
contains the Engine(eg. Catalina).  The Engine contains the hosts (eg
www.somedomain.com)  Within the different hosts is the Context.  Each
context is associated with one web application.  A web application is
made up of any number of servlets, jsp pages, or other resources.  

The box-inside-a-box analogy breaks down a little with respect to the
Connector components.  The purpose of Connectors is to provide an way to
connect to your web app utilizing different ports (port 80 for regular
http access, port 443 for ssl and so forth)

Hope this helps.


On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 13:41 +0530, niteHawk wrote:
 Hi Everybody,
   I was using Tomcat from a long time, but recently
 started getting more interested in it. Can someone explain me Tomcat
 Architecture in layman terms / point me to a better website. I didnt
 understand the documentation at
 http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/architecture/
 
 Thanking You.
 
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Setting up the Admin Tool

2005-05-14 Thread Philip Cote
I'm having a hard time getting the admin tool up and running on Tomcat
5.5.7 on Fedora Core Linux.  When I try to link to it from the localhost
root page, I get a messge telling me I need to install the admin
package.  Very well.  I go off to download the admin tool and use file
roller to unzip the thing.  Now I have a file
jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7-admin.tar-1 sitting in {CATALINA_HOME}/webapps
directory.  Any ideas?


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