1. 14-May-15 An Example Servlet Putting it all together

2. Credits This is the first example in Head First Servlets & JSP by Brian Basham, Kathy Sierra, and Bert Bates This is an excellent book, and goes into considerably more detail than we will in this course

3. It starts with an HTML form...

4. The HTML page, 1 Beer Selection Beer Selection Page...the form (on the next slide)...

5. The HTML page, 2 Select beer characteristics: Color: light amber brown dark

6. The deployment descriptor The request goes to the server, with the action The name "SelectBeer.do" is not the name of an actual file anywhere; it is a name given to the user Partly, this is for security; you don’t want the user to have access to the actual file without going through your form The extension.do is just a convention used by this particular book; no extension is necessary It is up to the deployment descriptor to find the correct servlet to answer this request The deployment descriptor must be named web.xml

7. web.xml 1 -- boilerplate <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4">...important stuff goes here...

8. web.xml 2 -- actual work Ch3 Beer com.example.web.BeerSelect Ch3 Beer /SelectBeer.do

9. BeerSelect.java 1 package com.example.web; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import com.example.model.BeerExpert; // notice this public class BeerSelect extends HttpServlet {... doPost method goes here... }

10. BeerSelect.java 2 public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException { String c = request.getParameter("color"); BeerExpert be = new BeerExpert(); List result = be.getBrands(c); request.setAttribute("styles", result); RequestDispatcher view = request.getRequestDispatcher("result.jsp"); view.forward(request, response); }

11. MVC BeerSelect.java acts as the controller It delegates the actual work to a model, BeerExpert.java It delegates (forwards) the information to a JSP page that will provide the view RequestDispatcher view = request.getRequestDispatcher("result.jsp"); view.forward(request, response);

12. The model class BeerExpert is the model class; it computes results and adds them to the HttpServletRequest object Not the HttpServletResponse object; that’s the HTML output It returns, in the usual fashion, to the BeerSelect class, which will then forward it to the JSP

13. BeerExpert.java package com.example.model; import java.util.*; public class BeerExpert { public List getBrands(String color) { List brands = new ArrayList(); if (color.equals("amber")) { brands.add("Jack Amber"); brands.add("Red Moose"); } else { brands.add("Jail Pale Ale"); brands.add("Gout Stout"); } return brands; }

14. The JSP file The JSP file must have the extension.jsp It is basically HTML, plus a few JSP directives It receives the HttpServletRequest and the HttpServletResponse objects The HttpServletResponse object may have been partially written by the servlet (but it’s a bad idea) The resultant HTML page goes back to the user

15. result.jsp Beer Recommendations JSP <% List styles = (List)request.getAttribute("styles"); Iterator it = styles.iterator(); while (it.hasNext()) { out.print(" TRY: " + it.next()); } %>

16. Directory structure jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12/ | webapps/  this is http://m174pc4.cis.upenn.edu:8080/ | | beerV1/ | | | form.html | | | result.jsp | | | WEB-INF/ | | | | web.xml | | | | classes/ | | | | | com/ | | | | | | example/ | | | | | | | model/ | | | | | | | | BeerExpert.class | | | | | | | web/ | | | | | | | | BeerSelect.class | | | | lib/ | | yourLastName  when you ftp, this is where you are

17. Accessing the class server Tomcat should be running 24/7 on m174pc4.cis.upenn.edu To try it, point your browser to: http://m174pc4.cis.upenn.edu:8080/beerV1/form.html When you ftp to m174pc4, pwd will tell you that you are in a directory “ / ”, but you are really in a directory C:\Tomcat\webapps\yourLastName This is the top-level directory for your web applications You should be able to put an HTML file here, say, index.html, and access it with http://m174pc4.cis.upenn.edu:8080/yourLastName/index.html

18. The End