Can a jsp include pdfs?

[Ashok Kumar Babu]

I want to display a pdf file when a user clicks the Link. so i have put a Href as

<a href="D:/First.pdf">View PDF</a>

Will it work? or how can i refer a file which is in the Local drive instead of the deployed Application.

Thanks
Ashok

[GS Chidam]

you can mention the path of pdf file, where physically stored in the server

[Ashok Kumar Babu]

Can i refer a file which is not in the Server, instead of that its in a local drive. Anything like this?

<a href="D:/Folder/Sample.pdf">View PDF</a>

See the reason behind the question the application will generate a new File(think it as a PDF) which i need to save in a Local Disk which in turn used by the Jsps. I cannot save it in my Application which is deployed as a war in the JBoss Server.

Any Solutions?

Thanks
Ashok

[Jeroen T Wenting]

... another example of someone trying to have a serverside application write a file directly to the client computer ...

It's not going to work, and you don't need to write anything to disk (you can just stream the PDF data from a servlet).

[Ashok Kumar Babu]

Thanks Jeroen

I got the point.

Display the data from the Stream instead of saving in a local disk. Sounds good.

But i also want to know how a jsp will refer another File(or Data) which not belongs to the Application(war file).

Thanks a Lot for your Reply.

[Ben Souther]

 

Originally posted by Ashok Kumar Babu:
Thanks Jeroen

I got the point.

Display the data from the Stream instead of saving in a local disk. Sounds good.

But i also want to know how a jsp will refer another File(or Data) which not belongs to the Application(war file).

Thanks a Lot for your Reply.

No, you would need to write your own code for streaming the file to the browser if the file doesn't reside within the web application.