Today, Budi walks us through a refresher and brief overview of server JSP programming. Today's portion covers JavaServer Pages (JSP), with a thorough overview of JavaBeans and Tags. This excerpt comes from chapter one of JavaServer Faces Programming, by Budi Kurniawan (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, ISBN 0-07-222983-7, 2004).
Sun introduced servlets in 1996, and this technology soon became popular as a faster solution than the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) technology, which was the first technology for writing Web applications. However, Sun realized that writing servlets could be very cumbersome, especially if you need to send a long HTML page with little code. Take the following servlet as an example:
import javax
.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class MyLongServlet extends HttpServlet {
//Process the HTTP GET request public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { doPost(request, response); }
//Process the HTTP POST request public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { response.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("<HTML>"); out.println("<HEAD><TITLE>Using Servlets</TITLE></HEAD>"); out.println("<BODY BGCOLOR=#123123>");
out.println("</BODY>"); out.println("</HTML>"); out.close(); } //End of doPost method } //End of class
Half of the content sent from the doPost method is static HTML. However, each HTML tag must be embedded in a String and sent using the println method of the PrintWriter object. It is a tedious chore. Worse still, every single change, even the change to a color code in an HTML tag, requires you to recompile the servlet.
Remember: This is part two of the first chapter of JavaServer Faces Programming, by Budi Kurniawan (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, ISBN 0-07-222983). Stay tuned for more chapters of developer books from McGraw-Hill/Osborne. Buy this book!
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