Accessing data files via APPLET tags in JSP pages

2003-06-09 Thread Susan Hoddinott



Hello,

I am restricted in that my web hoster does not have 
an installed graphics environment (therefore any attempts to draw graphics 
offscreen in a servlet results in a null pointer from 
getLocalGraphicsEnvironment). In order to bypass this problem I have 
attempted to replace my servlet with an applet and I call this via an APPLET 
HTML tag in a JSP. It works fine except for the fact that any attempt to 
read a data file on the server seems instead to be interpreted as an attempt to 
read the file in a directory of the same name on the client, despite passing in 
such parameters as request.getRealPath(/) and request.getServletPath(). It 
also seems to use the JVM in any plug-in on the client machine rather than my 
preferred JVM environment on the server.

Has anyone encountered these problems and found a 
way around them?

Regards,Susan Hoddinotthttp://www.hexworx.com
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Re: Accessing data files via APPLET tags in JSP pages

2003-06-09 Thread Magne Skjeret
man, 09.06.2003 kl. 12.48 skrev Susan Hoddinott:
 Hello,
  
 I am restricted in that my web hoster does not have an installed
 graphics environment (therefore any attempts to draw graphics
 offscreen in a servlet results in a null pointer from
 getLocalGraphicsEnvironment).  In order to bypass this problem I have
 attempted to replace my servlet with an applet and I call this via an
 APPLET HTML tag in a JSP.  It works fine except for the fact that any
 attempt to read a data file on the server seems instead to be
 interpreted as an attempt to read the file in a directory of the same
 name on the client, despite passing in such parameters as
 request.getRealPath(/) and request.getServletPath().  It also seems to
 use the JVM in any plug-in on the client machine rather than my
 preferred JVM environment on the server.
  
 Has anyone encountered these problems and found a way around them?

  An applet is running on the client machine, not on the server.
If the server is using java1.4 you can set the server to be headless,
making it possible to create images and such on a server without a
graphichs environment.

-Djava.awt.headless=true on the startup script will make it run
headless.

I hope this can help.
Magne Skjeret

  
 Regards,
 Susan Hoddinott
 http://www.hexworx.com
 
 
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Re: Accessing data files via APPLET tags in JSP pages

2003-06-09 Thread Susan Hoddinott
Thanks,

I'll try that.  The component toolkit methods and awt toolkit stuff were all
looking for X11 and there did not seem to be anything else as you are
probably aware.  It does seems strange to me that the APPLETS will read
sound and graphics files on the server but not a simple data file.

Regards,
Susan Hoddinott
http://www.hexworx.com

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 man, 09.06.2003 kl. 12.48 skrev Susan Hoddinott:
  Hello,
 
  I am restricted in that my web hoster does not have an installed
  graphics environment (therefore any attempts to draw graphics
  offscreen in a servlet results in a null pointer from
  getLocalGraphicsEnvironment).  In order to bypass this problem I have
  attempted to replace my servlet with an applet and I call this via an
  APPLET HTML tag in a JSP.  It works fine except for the fact that any
  attempt to read a data file on the server seems instead to be
  interpreted as an attempt to read the file in a directory of the same
  name on the client, despite passing in such parameters as
  request.getRealPath(/) and request.getServletPath().  It also seems to
  use the JVM in any plug-in on the client machine rather than my
  preferred JVM environment on the server.
 
  Has anyone encountered these problems and found a way around them?

   An applet is running on the client machine, not on the server.
 If the server is using java1.4 you can set the server to be headless,
 making it possible to create images and such on a server without a
 graphichs environment.

 -Djava.awt.headless=true on the startup script will make it run
 headless.

 I hope this can help.
 Magne Skjeret

 
  Regards,
  Susan Hoddinott
  http://www.hexworx.com
 
 
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Re: Accessing data files via APPLET tags in JSP pages

2003-06-09 Thread Susan Hoddinott
On this same subject, I was wondering if there is any way of forcing an
APPLET to access a server file, e.g. via socket connection, etc.?

Regards,
Susan Hoddinott
http://www.hexworx.com

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 man, 09.06.2003 kl. 12.48 skrev Susan Hoddinott:
  Hello,
 
  I am restricted in that my web hoster does not have an installed
  graphics environment (therefore any attempts to draw graphics
  offscreen in a servlet results in a null pointer from
  getLocalGraphicsEnvironment).  In order to bypass this problem I have
  attempted to replace my servlet with an applet and I call this via an
  APPLET HTML tag in a JSP.  It works fine except for the fact that any
  attempt to read a data file on the server seems instead to be
  interpreted as an attempt to read the file in a directory of the same
  name on the client, despite passing in such parameters as
  request.getRealPath(/) and request.getServletPath().  It also seems to
  use the JVM in any plug-in on the client machine rather than my
  preferred JVM environment on the server.
 
  Has anyone encountered these problems and found a way around them?

   An applet is running on the client machine, not on the server.
 If the server is using java1.4 you can set the server to be headless,
 making it possible to create images and such on a server without a
 graphichs environment.

 -Djava.awt.headless=true on the startup script will make it run
 headless.

 I hope this can help.
 Magne Skjeret

 
  Regards,
  Susan Hoddinott
  http://www.hexworx.com
 
 
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