Including an External File

I have an external file that contains a declaration of an ActiveX object that I need to include in several JSP's. The external file resides on a separate web server from where our applications reside.
I can't use the Include directive or the <jsp:include> tag because they only permit relative URL's. I also have read that I can use the <c:import> action tag provided in the JSTL, but we do not use JSTL currently and it would require additional time to add that code to our applications and test it.
Is there any other way to include this external file in my JSP pages?
Thanks
Tony

Thanks for the help. It hasn't been decided where the external file will reside, but it will probably be on our mainframe running WebSphere so I don't think the second option will work.
We were hoping that we could just add 1 line of code to our pages to pull in the external file to simply the development process, but that doesn't look like it will work. We might have to create a second file that can be referenced with a relative URL, and have this file use one of the URL Connection classes to get the first file and write out its contents.
Anyway, thanks for the tips!
Tony

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<emp>
<empno>7369</empno>
<ename>James</ename>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<emp>
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<ename>charles</ename>
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<a href="file:////server/rest of path/reldoc1.doc">Related Doc 1</a>
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2. The link is as shown in the status bar of Firefox is now set to:
<a href="file:////server/rest of path/reldoc1.doc">Related Doc 1</a>
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From what I understand, the (PPT, DOC, XLS, TXT, and PDF)
files would have to be included in the project, either in baggage
files or placed in the root of your project folder on the server.
Here is a snip from the online help regarding this:
<snip>
Enhanced indexing support for Search
In RoboHelp Server 8, for all the WebHelp Pro and FlashHelp
Pro projects, you can search for any topics and baggage files (PPT,
DOC, XLS, TXT, and PDF) included in a project. You can also add a
reference to these files in a topic, and the baggage files are
displayed in the search results.
For server-side indexing, you can copy the required baggage
files to the project folder. The RoboHelp server reads these files
and re-creates the index at the time of scheduled scanning. Also,
if you do not include these baggage files in the project, the
server still indexes them, provided they exist in the project
folder.
</snip>
So it seems that a link to an external file via HTTP or FTP
would not be indexed. I will try to seek further clarification on
this, but that's the way I read it.
Thanx,
john

Launch External Files from SSRS

I have a report that will list the names of files that are attached to this report in the database. I would like to include the list of files from the database and allow the users to click or double click the file name and have the file load.
Is there a way for SSRS to do this? The files can be in multiple formats, and in the project that adds the files we can use:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(filepath)
And it will launch the correct process to view the files. I have stored the the file itself in an image column, and I also have the full path and the file name in columns as well so I could create a dataset to retrieve the file names and show them
on the report.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks.

Hi katghoti,
If I understand correctly, you want to embed external files (word, pdf, image etc.) into a report in Reporting Services. If in this scenario, I suggest that you can use the following two methods to achieve your requirement:
Embed these files into database.
    1) Use the SQL commands to embed these files in database as the image data.
    2) Use the .net language (C#, VB) to convert this data into the image.
    3) Use the image control to show these images, which are files embedded in database.
Reference:
How to embed a pdf document in Reporting Services
Upload these files in the report server, access them using URL.
    1) We can upload these files in the report manager.
    2) Adding hyperlinks to reports to link to these files stored on the report server.
Reference:
URL Access Parameter Reference in Reporting Services
How to add a Hyperlink to a URL in Reporting Services
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
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