'How to offer download of local PDF file in Java?
I have JBoss running as application server and somewhere on my HD there is a PDF file, that gets created when the user clicks on a specific action. Let's say the file is here: C:/PDF/doonot/10.07.2012/doonot.pdf. How can I offer this file as download? I already did it for a CSV file, but I don't know how to do it with PDF.
Any help is much appreciated.
Solution 1:[1]
You can simply write a servlet wich read the pdf and write it to the response output stream.
Exemple here : http://www.java-forums.org/blogs/servlet/668-how-write-servlet-sends-file-user-download.html
Solution 2:[2]
Yes Gustav is right. Java doesn't discriminate amongst file types. A file is a file, if you did it for csv, it should also work for pdf.
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | Anthony |
| Solution 2 | greenkode |