Re: call Applet in servlet

[Bo Xu]

>hi all, >can somebody tell me what is the simplest way of calling an applet in a servlet. >I have an applet with some map data (esri shape) and i wnat to display it >when someone requests the url of my servlet.   >thanks in adv..   >anoop         sorry I just sent a empty email.  in your Servlet, you can genarate a html code to invoke your Applet class. when I use TOMCAT, I put Applet class in webapps/ROOT, from the following email, you also can put your Appet class together with your Servlet class(inside your webapp)     good email :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, The codebase depends on how you setup your server directories ;) I can only comment on what I like to do personally, so adopt this as you see fit.   I like to set up a directory under my docbase, /applets.  Inside are just symlinks pointing to the class files that I put under the respective webapps WEB-INF/classes directories.  For example, applet1->../WEB-INF/classes/org.mycompany.applet1File   Then my applet tags are typically things like:   <APPLET   NAME=applet1   CODE='org.mycompany.Applet1'   CODEBASE='http://myserver:myport/mywebapp/applets'   <PARAM tags etc... /> </APPLET>   Hopefully this helps,   Yoav   longinus wrote: > > how about codebase attribute? > > Yoav Shapira schrieb: > > > > Howdy, > > > > > > Do you know were applets should be put in TOMCAT server? > > > > > > > > > > Applet is the kind of web documents like .html. > > > I think that you can put applets together with other static documents. > > > > I would disagree with that ;)  The applets, per-se, are compiled > > files (.class or maybe in a jar).  Furthermore, the applet must be > > locatable by its fully-qualified class name, e.g. org.mycompany.foo. > > > > Accordingly, I would put the applet (if .class) in the WEB-INF/classes > > directory, and if it's in a JAR file I'd put it in the WEB-INF/lib > > directory.  The usual stuff applies about if you need them visible to > > other apps, put in tomcat/lib, etc. > > > > Just my two cents ;) > > Yoav ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Bo Nov.09, 2001