Hello,

where lies the difference of rich:mediaOutput and SEAM's DocumentStore.

I want to produce binary data(such as pdf, images, ..) via code and output it to a JSF something:

With rich:mediaOutput, I do not need to configure the Seam's DocumentStore:

<rich:mediaOutput value={mybinaryData} ...

When using rich:mediaOutput, I do not need SEAM's DocumentStore, and vice versa? Am I right? Which is better? Are there any difference?


Using Seams documentStore, I have to do some settings:

for example:

<document:document-store use-extensions="true" error-page="/missingDoc.seam"/>

<servlet>
 <servlet-name>Document Store Servlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>org.jboss.seam.document.DocumentStoreServlet</servlet-class>
 </servlet>

 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Document Store Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>*.pdf</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Document Store Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>*.rtf</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

There are no equivalent settings in rich:mediaOutput. Which one is better?