Howdy, You can do it either way, depending on whether the image is embedded in a document (then have tomcat serve it with the images under tomcat webapps) or you just want to serve the image itself back (have tomcat redirect to apache with the images under apache).
However, let me ask you this: the image names are in a database, but you do some logic / compose some JDBC query in order to get the name of the image you want to serve. All the images are on disk anyways, which means all the images names are on disk anyways. Would it be possible for you to do the image selection logic without the database? You may get big performance improvements. I don't know what your image selection logic is, but if it's something that can be deduced from the file system, e.g. the latest image, then you can do this without the DB. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: kal inuganti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:13 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Serving Graphics Q > > >Hi All, > >I have tomcat running on apache webserver on windows NT. I would like to >serve some graphics (.jpgs) over the web. I have an access database that >stores the image name and my servlet uses JDBC to get the name of the >image. Once I have the image name, I would like to load the image on my >web-page. > >I am a little confused about the actual location of the images... should I >put them under apache web server - htdocs/images/<image> OR >under tomcat - webapps/ROOT/images/<image> > >I understand that I am better off having the web-server serve the images. >But what I dont understand is the mechanism... tomcat executes my servlet >and will/should it be the one to load the images? > >Please suggest. > >Thanks, >-kalyan > > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
