Random Image servlet v. 1.1


Java servlet lets you obtain random image from the server. How to use it:

1) download RandomImageServlet.jar and save it in WEB-INF/lib

2) describe this servlet in web.xml:
 


    <servlet>
     <servlet-name>RandomImage</servlet-name>
     <servlet-class>com.jsos.image.RandomImageServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>

3) add a mapping if you need:
 


     <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>RandomImage</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/servlet/RandomImage</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>

and you can use some like this in your JSP files:
 


<img src="/servlet/RandomImage?c:/mydir" border="0"/>

in this case servlet requests some random image from directory c:/mydir

also you can describe a path to your directory with images file as an initial parameter. Parameter name is dir:
 


    <servlet>
     <servlet-name>RandomImage</servlet-name>
     <servlet-class>com.jsos.image.RandomImageServlet</servlet-class>
     <init-param>
      <param-name>dir</param-name>
      <param-value>/home/myimages</param-value>
     </init-param>
    </servlet>

The usage in this case is:
 


<img src="/servlet/RandomImage" border="0">

For JSP (and/or Coldfusion files) see Random content taglib.

For downloading:

servlet: RandomImageServlet.jar  

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