Added controller for returning media in response body

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/ImageController.java

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+package com.baeldung.spring.controller;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.core.io.DefaultResourceLoader;
+import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
+import org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
+import org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletContextResourceLoader;
+
+@Controller
+public class ImageController {
+
+    @Autowired
+    ServletContext servletContext;
+
+    @RequestMapping(value = "/image-response-entity", method = RequestMethod.GET)
+    public ResponseEntity<byte[]> getImageAsREsponseEntity() throws IOException {
+        final InputStream in = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/images/image-example.jpg");
+        byte[] media = IOUtils.toByteArray(in);
+
+        final HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
+        headers.setContentType(MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG);
+
+        return new ResponseEntity<byte[]>(media, headers, HttpStatus.OK);
+    }
+    
+    @RequestMapping(value = "/image-byte-array", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG_VALUE)
+    public @ResponseBody byte[] getImageAsByteArray() throws IOException {
+        final InputStream in = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/images/image-example.jpg");
+        return IOUtils.toByteArray(in);
+    }
+    
+    
+
+    @ResponseBody
+    @RequestMapping(value = "/image-resource",  method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG_VALUE)
+    public Resource getImageAsResource() {
+       ResourceLoader resourceLoader = new ServletContextResourceLoader(servletContext);
+       return resourceLoader.getResource("/WEB-INF/images/image-example.jpg");
+    }
+}