Looks like roll your own then!

A few thoughts on the matter - maybe someone could add to them?

It should be easy to map requests for images to a servlet, which can
then find the appropriate image file wherever it might be ( within or
outside the server ). Like this in the web.xml file:

<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>servletName</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.jpg</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

?

But how is the image then added to the reponse? Another servlet (
behind the scenes - I am actually using  the Spring framework ) is
handling the request/response. Can the request/response be passed to
the image-providing servlet for the images within a page to be written
to the reponse in this kind of way:

// This method is called by the servlet container to process a GET request.
   public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse
resp) throws IOException {
       // Get the absolute path of the image
       ServletContext sc = getServletContext();
       String filename = sc.getRealPath("image.gif");

       // Get the MIME type of the image
       String mimeType = sc.getMimeType(filename);
       if (mimeType == null) {
           sc.log("Could not get MIME type of "+filename);
           resp.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
           return;
       }

       // Set content type
       resp.setContentType(mimeType);

       // Set content size
       File file = new File(filename);
       resp.setContentLength((int)file.length());

       // Open the file and output streams
       FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
       OutputStream out = resp.getOutputStream();

       // Copy the contents of the file to the output stream
       byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
       int count = 0;
       while ((count = in.read(buf)) >= 0) {
           out.write(buf, 0, count);
       }
       in.close();
       out.close();
   }

( from http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/javax.servlet/GetImage.html )

I'm off for a walk to mull it over - any suggestions while I am out
and before I get to experimenting will be most welcome.

Thanks,

John

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