Is there a way to make jsp communicate with an applet

Hi all,

I've saw lot of thread about JSP communication with Applet and it seems that it is not an easy way to make both communicate together.

I'm developping a web application which should display chart (simple bar, pie,...). It's easy to generate an HTML bar chart thanks to a bean, but how can I do it for a pie charts (I need awt or swing).

The specifications of my problem are the follow :

I have to loop into a resultset (coming from an Oracle db) in order to sort value. Then with this value I want to build a Pie chart (so it's dynamic).

Apparently the best way to create pie charts is thanks to an applet, but how can i make them communicate together.

Where should i place my applet,...

I'm using Tomcat.

Thanks a lot to all kind of help.

Just a last thing i don't want to take a third part tool or commercial solutions.

Regards

STF

[933 byte] By [stfohr] at [2007-9-26 1:59:14]