Display pdf file contents through jsp

[Ramesh Bhagasra]

I want to display the pdf file contents to the web page through jsp. Currently i am trying to it using response object and setting its content type to application/pdf but the explorer does not show any output. what i have to do for initialising the pdf application and displaying the contents stored in my oracle databse as blob field. Please help me out........

[Sona Bhavani]

hi,
First check out if you are able to open pdf files independantly in your browser thro File > Open menu.If that works fine then you should have no problems viewing pdf files thro jsp.

Sona.

[Bear Bibeault]

JSPs are designed to return text data. For binary data such as PDF files, servlets are a much better choice.
bear

[Ramesh Bhagasra]

can u give me some code idea for that and plz tell me can i use servlet as a bean in my jsp using usebean tag

[Jasmine kaur]

Hello,
you can try and see wheteher it works or not , well it would be better if you use servlets.
Thanks
Jasmine