Servlet Send Image as Response

Send Image as Response in Servlet

To Send an image as response from servlet back to the browser the following changes are required.

• Set MIME type or content type as image by using image/.gif.
• To transfer image response, you need ServletOutputStream as an outputStream to write the response. In this case printWriter class is not suitable.
• Use an image encoder class, to store that image file into the outputStream object.

import java.io.*;  
import javax.servlet.*;  
import javax.servlet.http.*;  
import java.awt.image;
import javax.swing.imageIcon.*;  
import Acme.JpmEncoders.GifEncoder;  

public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet
{  
  
  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
  {  
  
    response.setContentType("image/gif");  
    ServletOutputStream out = response.outputStream();  
            
    // optain image icon
	ImageIcon imageicon=new ImageIcon("c:/cow.gif");

	// encoding the image and send to the outputStream

	GifEncoder g=new GifEncoder(image, out)

	g.encode();
    out.close();
  }  
} 

In the above servlet program you have need to use third party class called GifEncoder, so you need a jar file to set in the classpath called acme.jar

To compile the above servlet you need the flowing jar files.

• servlet-api.jar
• acme.jar

You need to copy acme.jar file into the lib folder to execute above servlet program

<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>s1</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>MyServlet</servlet-class>  
</servlet>  

<servlet-mapping>  
<servlet-name>s1</servlet-name>  
<url-pattern>/servlet1</url-pattern>  
</servlet-mapping>  

</web-app>