Displaying a tiff image in a browser.

Question

Hi I need to display a tiff image in the browser which does not have a tiff plugin. I guess I have to convert the tiff to jpeg on the fly and write it in the output stream. Has anyone worked on this or knows any other way. Please not I dont want to create an intermediate jpeg file.

Answer 1

Thanks for your help. I am having one problem though. The tiff file is not being read. The ImageIO.read(file); is returning null. I guess I am using the wrong ImageIO class.( javax.imageio.ImageIO;). I am pasting the code below. See if you can find out the bug.
package tiffToJpg;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.servlet.GenericServlet;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGCodec;
import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGImageEncoder;
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public class TiffToJpg extends GenericServlet
     public void service(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
          File file=new File("Demo1.jpg");
     ServletOutputStream servletOuputStream=response.getOutputStream();
                    BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(file);
                    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
          JPEGImageEncoder encoder = JPEGCodec.createJPEGEncoder(baos);
                    encoder.encode(image);
               servletOuputStream.write(baos.toByteArray());
}