That is what I need. I mentioned the word "gurus" in my question :)
Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content -- please help. Bean write may not be converting the property correctly, it's just tostring'ing it, which is why you see the address of the object. You need something that will stuff the binary form of the PDF into the response -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:09 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content -- please help. Did you try this code yourself? I am telling you that this is exactly what I have done and it does not work. I have a form bean that has a byte array attribute that I populate in the action and then set the content type and use bean:write on that attribute in the JSP and it just displays the address of the byte array on the screen instead of loading PDF. I don't think the JSP and bean:write work correctly with the byte array fields. The question was a tricky one. If it was that simple, I would not have sent so many emails. Any other ideas? Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content -- please help. I think you're missing the bigger concept. A PDF is the same as a JPG - it's a media file that differs from just the plain text sent in an html page. You can't just stream a PDF in the middle of HTML. You have to associate it with a content type, and the browser has to make a request for it, just like it does for images. One HTML page with 2 images == 3 requests to the server: 1 for the text, 1 for each image. Browsers (generally) won't make a request for a PDF embedded in the page, as there is not related tag (like the img= for gif/jpg). So, if your user gets to your stored PDF by clicking a link, your rendering JSP page might look like this: <myTag:showPdf pdfid="123"/> your tag would then: - output the Content-Type and (ideally) filesize to the datastream - then write out the bytes of the PDF file to the datastream - end the tag the browser will handle everything else out.println("Content-Type=....... byte[] pdf = loadPdf(123); // write the bytes to out in whichever manner is most efficient From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content -- please help. Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:55:32 -0400 And then what? I can easily access it from the form bean field and from the session. There's no problem here. The question is how to stream it to the client. Please see my previous email. Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content -- please help. JSP is the same as Servlet. Put your pdf content in the session scope, you can get it on your jsp page through session.getAttribute("pdfContent"); -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 22, 2003 7:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using bean:write to display/stream PDF content -- please help. [SNIP] I know the best way to do it is to have a servlet. But I need to do it in a JSP because of certain limitations of my application. Please help. Thanks. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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