Thanks for the reply.

"Arne Vajhøj" wrote in message news:460323df$0$90268$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
> Or you can use an applet that retrieves the images via socket
> and displays it within the applet.

This is very important to me. Are you really saying "can" or "as far as I know you used to be able to"? Are you referring to Microsoft's implementation of Data Source Objects in Internet Explorer or something else? The reason that I am so sceptical is that I asked the following question xposted here and c.l.javascript a while back: -

----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Maher" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:24 AM Subject: Applet as DSO in Browser example? MSIE only?

> Hi,
>
> Recently on the web I came across documentation discussing Data Source
> Objects (DSO) in relation to browser and html functionality (in particular
> the ability to declare a Java applet as a data source that can be used with
> any or the HTML tags that take the src="" attribute). I find it interesting
> and potentially *very* useful and would like to know more, so if anyone can
> answer any of the following questions that would be great: -
>
> 1) Do you have an example of an Applet functioning as an applet to something
> like a that I can see?
>
> 2) Is this a MicrosoftIE-only feature? I can't find it in other html tag
> reference sites. (I'm using w3schools as a sort of yardstick; is that less
> than optimal?) What do other browsers do? Is Microsoft deprecating this
> along with other Java stuff?
>
> 3) I've searched in c.l.j.p/c.l.javascript and the only references to DSOs
> appear to be server based (or data sources other than Applet) I'm guessing
> they're entirely different beasts; is that correct?
>
> 4) Anyone ever passed a BufferedImage over to Javascript for display on a
> web page? (I know it'd be single threaded and all those little .GIFs and
> .JPEGs are designed for parallel http webservers, but think of a blob in a
> database that has an employee photo of geological survey or something. . .)
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Regards Richard Maher
>
> PS. I am already passing result set s back to a list quite
> happily; it's the tighter integration between the html tags and my socket
> that I'm striving for here.
>
> One of the places I've been looking: -
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/databind/datasources.asp
>

. . .and the only answer I got was: - [ The reference to Java applet on MSDN is a bit mysterious to me. I guess for IE 4/5 Microsoft allowed to use their JVM for bridging to the needed ActiveX, so people could use either