Introduction
Most web sites include some type of
multimedia and interactive programs, such as digital videos, digital
audio files, Macromedia Flash movies, and Java applets. Therefore,
Java web sites often integrate this type of content with servlets and
JavaServer Pages (JSPs). This chapter explains the basics of
embedding multimedia in Java web components. This process involves
including the object and embed
tags in your component's HTML output.
A JSP is the preferred choice for combining multimedia with
dynamic content, because you can make the
tags that you use to embed the multimedia a part of the
JSP's HTML template text. However, Recipe 17.5 also shows how to include multimedia as part
of a servlet's output.
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If the page containing the multimedia content does not
have to include any other type of dynamic output, just use a static
HTML page instead of executing JSPs and servlets. A static page
typically requires fewer server resources to respond to HTML page
requests.
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