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Basically you stream the image to the http response stream. Easier to explain with code so here’s a simple example.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class ImageServlet extends HttpServlet {

    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
    		HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException
    {
    	ServletContext application = getServletContext();

    	// Get the path to image we want to return

        String filepath = application.getRealPath("image.gif");

        // Get image MIME type

        String mimeType = application.getMimeType(filepath);
        if (mimeType == null)
        {
            application.log("Could not get MIME type of "+filepath);
            response.setStatus(
               HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
            return;
        }

        // Set content type

        response.setContentType(mimeType);

        // Set content size

        File file = new File(filepath);
        response.setContentLength((int)file.length());

        // Copy the contents of the file to the responses output stream

        FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
        OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
        byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
        int len = 0;
        while ((len = in.read(buf)) >= 0)
        {
            out.write(buf, 0, len);
        }
        in.close();
        out.close();
    }

}

See also:

• how-to-get-the-path-of-a-file-in-a-web-application
• How-do-i-copy-a-file-using-java
  

  written by objects \\ tags: HttpServletResponse, image, servlet