Re: Different components needed to build Java Web App - Beginner Question

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.nospam>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:18:39 -0400
Message-ID:
<uP2dnW0CA9ldNC7bnZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@comcast.com>
"Agapito" wrote:

What I meant by my question is , in a servlet , we usually code something
like this:

out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
// some code
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
//some code
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");

I could have a page with some frames or images and it could take time if I
want to code everything through HTML (worse if I change something - I will
have to change code in all servlet codes !) , so I wonder if there is a
way to do this in a different way ?


Yes, it's called "JSP" or "Java Server Pages". We almost never code something
like what you showed as a servlet; it's very bad practice, actually. We code
layout in JSPs, and navigation and controller logic in servlets (along with a
few special functions).

So your example would be more like:

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
     <title>The Right Way To Do JEE Web Apps - A Separate View</title>
</head>
<body>
    <img src="images/some.png" />
    <h1>The Right Way To Do JEE Web Apps - A Separate View</h1>
    <div>
      <%-- some text and markup and some dynamic content --%>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

--
Lew

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