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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Magne Skjeret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:30 PM Subject: Re: Accessing data files via APPLET tags in JSP pages > 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 > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
