Much easier in ASP than Servlets - prove me wrong..please

Question

Be the judge - is ASP better than servlets in this case?
Here is the ASP/script segment that can take binary image data stored in a buffer and with one simple method - return that data to the browser - such that the image appears in the requesting browser window, simple? in ASP, yes. Servlets? convince me its easier than this.
ASP APPROACH:
'Buff is a simple array of bytes - just assume its prefilled'
Response.BinaryWrite(Buff)
This works. I see the image in the browser window that points to this ASP page.
SERVLET APPROACH:
// First get the data from the source where its stored, I do this with:
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
int size = in.available();
response.setContentType("image/jpg");
// now I need to put the data in a buffer, buff
// first opening an outputstream on the response
ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
byte[] buff = new byte[size];
int count;
while ((count = in.read(buff)) != -1)
out.write(buff, 0, count);
This will not return the image directly back to the browser window. IE doesn't identify the data type coming in...asks you to open or save it, then makes you choose the application to read it - forcing you to open another window...finally you can see the image.
Questions:
A.) Is there a better way to do this using servlets so it will not prompt me to open or save the file? I cannot use IMG SRC and HTML tags - I must only return the image like in ASP. Only needs the image.
B.) Does MS hide implementation for ASP in their browser to make this easier for them?
C.) Am I just a terrible Java programmer? (watch it!)
D.) All of the above.

Answer 1

You can go even further. Program in Visual Basic is much, much simpler than in Java. Why all those "crazy" people are using Java.
Everything from MS starting from OS to distributed technologies is outdated.
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