what’s the recommended method to load an SWF file in my page ?
just to use HttpServletResponse.getWriter and to print with it the SWF object, or is there a more efficient method ?
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what’s the recommended method to load an SWF file in my page ?
just to use HttpServletResponse.getWriter and to print with it the SWF object, or is there a more efficient method ?
If it is a static SWF file, simply place it in a publicly browsable path and allow Tomcat to serve it as a static file. If you are generating an SWF file dynamically,
ServletResponse.getWriter()is perfectly fine as long as you remember to set theContent-typeHTTP header toapplication/x-shockwave-flash. You can do that just before writing to the output stream withServletResponse.setContentType()like this:You may also want to think about setting some HTTP caching related headers such as
Cache-ControlandExpiresif you want browsers to be able to cache your SWF files. You can do that withHttpServletResponse.setHeader()orHttpServletResponse.addHeader(). For the case of a static SWF file, you will have to set caching headers in aFiltermapped with a<url-pattern>.Another point worth mentioning is that referencing SWF content in a cross browser friendly way that bypasses an irritating extra-click behavior in some versions of MSIE has become some kind of black magic. I recommend using the SWFObject library (hosted on Google Code) to abstract the ugliness away.