Embed PDF in webpage

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I tried to follow this post by integrating it to the Spring MVC which result me to these codes:

Controller:

@RequestMapping( value = "/assign/{id}" )
public String getModule( @PathVariable( "id" )
int fileId, Model model, HttpServletResponse response )
{
    model.addAttribute( "id", fileId );
    File test = new File( "C:\\resource\\pdf\\Another Sample.pdf" );
    response.setHeader( "Content-Type", "application/pdf" );
    response.setHeader( "Content-Length", String.valueOf( test.length() ) );
    response.setHeader( "Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=\"Another Sample.pdf\"" );
    try
    {
        Files.copy( test.toPath(), response.getOutputStream() );
    }
    catch( IOException e )
    {

        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return "redirect:../assign.do";
}

JSP page:

<object data="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/Another Sample.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="100%">
     <p>Download Missing plug-in <a href="http://get.adobe.com/reader/" class="btn btn-link">here</a> </p>
</object>

But for some reason the ${pageContext.request.contextPath} causing an error:

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I tried to click the link that accessing the controller it just displaying the PDF file in the whole page which is not my goal. What I want to do is display the PDF in the object tag

You need some kind of flash plugin or something for that. You can't normally display a PDF in one little portion of the browser screen. — developerwjk, Oct 30 '13 at 20:22
I tried to display the PDF from one of the folder inside the project and its working. Are you sure that I need some flash plugin? — Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, Oct 30 '13 at 23:06
yes, you'll need a browser plugin, may not be flash, but a plugin is required. PDFs can't be directly viewed randomly in some area of your browser screen, they will instead be downloaded. — coding_idiot, Oct 31 '13 at 03:22
@coding_idiot From my point of view. The object tag already using the default plugin of the browser to view PDFs. As i said on my previous comment, I tried to display a PDF file from the resource folder of my project and its working. My problem is when the source is outside the project, it doesn't seems to work. — Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, Oct 31 '13 at 03:47
Sorry if it confused you, but `it just displaying the PDF file in the whole page` - not in a portion, because that's what the plugin does. To display in some small portion, you'll need some other plugin, something like [here](http://www.slideshare.net/) — coding_idiot, Oct 31 '13 at 04:10
@coding_idiot I see. Can you suggest a good tutorial or for newbie like me to follow? I'm really in a pinch now. I'm a week behind the dead line of my dead line. — Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, Oct 31 '13 at 05:08
http://www.jqueryrain.com/2012/09/best-jquery-pdf-viewer-plugin-examples/ — coding_idiot, Oct 31 '13 at 14:09
@CadisEtramaDiRaizel when the pdf is outside ethe project the ${pageContext.request.contextPath} will not work — SarathSprakash, Nov 01 '13 at 10:04
@SarathSprakash Is there another way around without using plugin? With just Spring and HTML? — Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, Nov 01 '13 at 10:24
@CadisEtramaDiRaizel, if it is not of your project just directly give the path to that pdf — SarathSprakash, Nov 01 '13 at 10:29
@SarathSprakash I tried to give it a full path like this C:/resource/pdf/Ang Kahalagahan ng Pamilya.pdf but nothing shows — Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, Nov 01 '13 at 10:42
@CadisEtramaDiRaizel you cannot access a local path using the html , if you paste the above path in browser , will you get the resource, — SarathSprakash, Nov 01 '13 at 10:46
If you want to access local pdf file it has to be in your resource. html doesnot works on physical path , only on virtual path — SarathSprakash, Nov 01 '13 at 10:50
@SarathSprakash this `file:///C:/resource/pdf/Ang Kahalagahan ng Pamilya.pdf` still doesn't work. — Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, Nov 01 '13 at 11:00
@SarathSprakash Wait I'm a bit confuse. If I do that then the Object type will be URI and the code will break. — Cadis Etrama Di Raizel, Nov 01 '13 at 11:25

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