jsp:plugin

The jsp:plugin action is used to generate client browser specific HTML tags (OBJECT or EMBED) that ensures that the Java Plug-in software is available, followed by execution of the applet or JavaBean component specified in the tag.

The jsp:plugin tag can have two optional additional support tags:

<jsp:param> elements, to pass additional parameters to the Applet or JavaBean component.
A <jsp:fallback> element, to specify the content to be displayed in the client browser if the plugin cannot be started because the generated tags are not supported. The <jsp:fallback> tag does the same thing as the HTML "ALT" or "NOFRAMES" attributes.

    <jsp:plugin type="bean|applet" code="objectCode" codebase="objectCodebase"
             align="alignment" archive="archiveList" height ="height" hspace="hspace"
             jreversion="jreversion"  name="componentName"  vspace="vspace"
             width="width"  nspluginurl="url"  iepluginurl="url" >
        <jsp:params>
            <jsp:param name="paramName" value=" paramValue" />
            <jsp:param name=" paramName" value=" paramValue" />
            ...
        </jsp:params>
        <jsp:fallback> Alternate text to display </jsp:fallback>
    </jsp:plugin>

Example

    <jsp:plugin type="applet" code="projsp.TestApplet" codebase="/classes/applets"
    height="100" width="100">
          <jsp:params>
          <jsp:param name="color" value="black"/>
          <jsp:param name="speed" value="fast"/>
          <jsp:param name="sound" value="off"/>
          </jsp:params>
       <jsp:fallback>Your browser cannot display this applet text </jsp:fallback>
    </jsp:plugin>

type

Required: Yes

Identifies the type of the component; a Bean, or an Applet.

height

Required: No, but some browsers do not allow an object of zero height due to security issues

Same as HTML syntax

jreversion

Required: No

The Java runtime environment version needed to execute this object. The default is "1.1".

width

Required: No, but some browsers do not allow an object of zero width due to security issues.

Same as HTML syntax

nspluginurl

Required: Only if the Java Plugin software needs to be installed on the client.

URL where JRE plugin can be downloaded for Netscape Navigator, default is implementation defined.

iepluginurl

Required: Only if the Java Plugin software needs to be installed on the client.

URL where JRE plugin can be downloaded for Internet Explorer, default is implementation defined.