how to display a pdf document in jsf page in iFrame

Question

Can anyone help me in displaying PDF document in JSF page in iframe only?

Thanks in advance,

Suresh

Answer 1

Just use

If your problem is rather that the PDF is not located in the WebContent, but rather located somewhere else in disk file system or even in a database, then you basically need a Servlet which gets an InputStream of it and writes it to the OutputStream of the response:

response.reset();
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setContentLength(file.length());
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "inline; filename=\"" + file.getName() + "\"");
BufferedInputStream input = null;
BufferedOutputStream output = null;

try {
    input = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file), DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);
    output = new BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream(), DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);

    byte[] buffer = new byte[DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE];
    int length;
    while ((length = input.read(buffer)) > 0) {
        output.write(buffer, 0, length);
    }
} finally {
    close(output);
    close(input);
}

This way you can just point to this servlet instead :) E.g.:

You can find a complete example of a similar servlet in this article.

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