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Building Web Applications Using Servlets and JSP - Part 2

In part 1, Harshal Deo explained how to build a simple web application with Servlets and JSP. In part 2 he discusses how to modify the Login Servlet to validate the userid and password with those from the database .

Building Web Applications Using Servlets and JSP

'Step' through the different components involved in developing a simple web application using 'server s ide Java'.

JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition

JSP is the latest Java technology for web application development and is based on the servlet technolog y introduced in the previous chapter. While servlets are great in many ways, they are generally reserved for pr ogrammers. In this chapter, we look at the problems that JSP technology solves, the anatomy of a JSP page, the relationship between servlets and JSP, and how the server processes a JSP page. From O'Reilly & Associates , Inc.

Writing Servlet Filters

Join Kief Morris as he explains the ins and outs of writing Servlet Filters.

Professional JSP Site Design: Chapter 12 - Content Management

Eye candy brings them in, but content brings them back, especially if that content is kept up-to-date and topical. This chapter steps through a case study that develops an article management system for a news site, or any site that posts articles on a regular basis.

Using Apache Tomcat 4

Marty Hall's summary of how you would install and configure Tomcat 4 for use as a standalone Web server that supports servlets 2.3 and JSP 1.2.

Professional JSP Site Design

This book is designed to take you from a basic knowledge of the JSP and Servlet technologies to a deeper understanding of how best to implement core web site features such as dynamic navigation, page layout, and content management. From Wrox Press.

Professional Java Server Programming J2EE Edition Chapter 12

From the point of view of the JSP developer, the only significant new feature of JSP 1.1 is support for tag extensions(often referred to as custom tags). However, this proves to be very significant indeed. Check it out in this excerpt from Wrox Press' Professional Java Server Programming.

Web Development with JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition

The second edition of the bestselling Web Development with JavaServer Pages updates and expands the original. Chapter 8 will help developers create their own JavaBeans for use as JSP communion, and teach web designers how they are implemented behind the scenes. From Manning Publications Co.

JSP Tag Libraries : Chapter 3: Developing your first tags

Become acquainted with the world of custom JSP tags--new JSP technology that is beginning to have an enormous impact on the way people are developing JSP. JSP Tag Libraries is a bible for serious JSP developers. From Manning Publications Co.

Initializing an HTML-form using JSP and JavaScript

Keld Hansen presents a safe, yet robust, technique for initializing the controls in a form using JavaScript functions that are executed when the HTML-page is loaded. The method requires minimal JSP coding, leaving the HTML-section almost free of JSP-constructs.

Beginning JSP Web Development

Learn how the web works and how JSP fits in, how to get input from the user and create web pages 'on the fly', how JavaBeans components and tag libraries allow you to make your code more readable and easier to maintain, and of course how the Java language itself works. From Wrox Press.

A very simple JSP-architecture Part 2

Join Keld Hansen as he adds a couple of new functions to last months "customer-lookup" application. Discussed briefly is the "portability of JSP-pages" and a few tips on how to ease debugging JSP-pages.

A very simple JSP-architecture

Keld Hansen presents a simple JSP-architecture, along with a handful of useful techniques, for the quick creation of web-applications - without loss of quality.

Java Cookbook : Chapter 18: Web Server Java: Servlets and JSP

The Java Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Java. Developers will find hundreds of tried-and-true Java "recipes" covering all of the major APIs as well as some APIs that aren't as well documented in other Java books. From O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Web Development with JavaServer Pages

Web Development with JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a new server-side Java technology for generating dynamic content in web pages and other on-line applications. Learn all about it in this excerpt of Web Development with JavaServer Pages from Manning Publications Co.

Server-Side Web Applications Using Servlets and JSP

Marty Hall's step-by-step tutorial of server-side applets (servlets) and Java Server Pages (JSP).

Part 11: JavaServer Pages (JSP)

Overview

Syntax Summary

Template Text (Static HTML)

JSP Scripting Elements: Expressions, Scriptlets, and Declarations

JSP Directives

Example using Scripting Elements and Directives

Predefined Variables

JSP Actions

JSP Comments and Character Escaping Conventions

Part 10: Session Tracking

Overview of Session Tracking

The Session Tracking API

Example

Part 9: Handling Cookies

Overview of Cookies

The Servlet Cookie API

Some Minor Cookie Utilities

Example: A Customized Search Engine Interface

Part 8: Specifying HTTP Response Headers

Overview

Common Response Headers and Their Meaning

Example: Starting a Long-Running Calculation, Showing Partial Results, and Periodically Updating Display with New Data.

Part 7: Setting HTTP Status Codes

Overview: Status Codes and Messages

Setting Status Codes from Servlets

HTTP 1.1 Status Codes and Their Meanings

Example: A Search Engine Front End

Part 6: Accessing the Standard CGI Variables

The CGI Variables, Their Meaning, and the Servlet Equivalent

Example: Making a Table of All CGI Variables

Part 5: Reading HTTP Request Headers

Common Request Headers and Their Meaning

Reading Headers from Servlets

Example: Making Table of All Headers

Part 4: Handling Form Data

Introduction (Format, URL-encoding, GET, POST)

Example: Reading Specific Parameters

Example: Making Table of All Parameters

Part 3: First Servlets

Basic Servlet Structure

A Simple Servlet Generating Plain Text

Compiling and Invoking the Servlet

A Simple Servlet Generating HTML

Some Simple HTML Utilities for Servlets

Part 2: Getting Started: Installation and Setup

Obtaining and Installing the Servlet and JSP Classes

Getting a Servlet-Capable Web Server

Part 1: Overview of Servlets and JSP

What are Java Servlets?

What are the Advantages of Servlets over Traditional CGI?

What is JSP?

What are the Advantages of JSP?

Java Networking

Gunther Birznieks gives us an introduction to all we can expect when we start using Java on the server side.

Part 1: Introduction to Java Servlets
This comprehensive introduction defines what servlets are and why anyone would want to use them.

Part 2: Installing and Using the Java Servlet SDK
The first step to using servlets is installing a web server that supports the Java Servlet SDK.

Part 3: Writing Servlets
Now that the JSWDK is installed, we can focus on writing our first servlets.

Professional JSP

JSP is one of the most exciting server-side technologies in the Java 2 Enterprise Edition

How to Add Java Applets to Your Site

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