Action Class to Load Resources: Applets

[Michael McGrady]

I use an Action class to load resources, e.g., as follows:

        <html:img src='RESOURCE.do?resource=struts-power.gif'
                         alt='Powered by Struts'
                         height='15'/>.
The class is simple enough, sans utility classes:

public final class ActionResource
    extends Action {
  public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,
                               ActionForm form,
                               HttpServletRequest request,
                               HttpServletResponse response)
      throws IOException,
             ServletException {
    new WriteResponseImpl().write(new 
InitResponseImpl().init(request.getParameter(MimeConstant.RESOURCE), 
response), response);
    return null;
  }
} /// ;-) Michael McGrady HomeSites

I also use this in <OBJECT> tags for Flash, as follows:

<param
      name = "movie"
      value = "RESOURCE.MICHAELMcGRADY?resource=image_with_text.swf" />
and:

<embed
     src = "RESOURCE.MICHAELMcGRADY?resource=image_with_text.swf"
      quality = "high"
      bgcolor = "#ffffff"
      width = "<%= w %>"
      height = "<%= h %>"
      name = "simple_text1"
      align = "middle"
      allowScriptAccess = "sameDomain"
      type  = "application/x-shockwave-flash"
      pluginspage = "http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"; />
I need to see how to do this with applets in the <object> tag.  Anyone have 
a clue?  I cannot do this with the "codebase" attribute, I think, because 
that is not the entire URL to be accessed and I want to be inside 
WEB-INF.  Can I just deliver the class with the "code" attribute of the 
<OBJECT> tag and the ActionResource class?

Thanks for any assistance.  If you want to get resources inside WEB-INF, 
things are not well documented.  I think I will have this all pretty much 
licked, once I get by the applet dilemma.  Thanks, again, for any ideas.

Michael McGrady