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Accessing Database From JSP

The document discusses how to connect a MySQL database to a JSP application to allow inserting and retrieving book data. It explains how to create a database and table to store book names and authors, write JSP code to connect to the database and execute SQL statements to insert and query data, and use ResultSet objects to retrieve and display the book and author values on an HTML page. The code demonstrates establishing a database connection, executing INSERT and SELECT statements, and iterating through a ResultSet to display the results.

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Accessing Database From JSP

The document discusses how to connect a MySQL database to a JSP application to allow inserting and retrieving book data. It explains how to create a database and table to store book names and authors, write JSP code to connect to the database and execute SQL statements to insert and query data, and use ResultSet objects to retrieve and display the book and author values on an HTML page. The code demonstrates establishing a database connection, executing INSERT and SELECT statements, and iterating through a ResultSet to display the results.

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Accessing database from JSP

                           

Introduction

In This article I am going to discuss the connectivity from MYSQL database with JSP.we take a
example of Books database. This database contains a table named books_details. This table
contains three fields- id, book_name& author. we starts from very beginning. First we learn
how to create tables in MySQl database after that we write a html page for inserting the values in
'books_details' table in database. After submitting values a table will be showed that contains the
book name and author name.

Database

The database in example consists of a single table of three columns or fields. The database name
is "books" and it contains information about books names & authors.

Table:books_details

                           
  Book Name
ID Author
          
 Java I/O  Tim Ritchey
1.
            Java & XML,2  Brett
2. Edition    McLaughlin
            Java Swing, 2nd  Dave Wood,
3. Edition Marc Loy,

Start MYSQL prompt and type this SQL statement & press Enter-

                                MYSQL>CREATE DATABASE `books` ;

This will create "books" database.


Now we create table a table "books_details" in database "books".
                               
                                 MYSQL>CREATE TABLE `books_details` (
                                                `id` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
                                                `book_name` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL ,
                                               `author` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL ,
                                                PRIMARY KEY ( `id` ) 
                                                ) TYPE = MYISAM ;

This will create a table "books_details" in database "books"


JSP Code

The following code contains  html for user interface & the JSP backend-

<%@ page language="java" import="java.sql.*" %>


<%
String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
Class.forName(driver).newInstance();

Connection con=null;
ResultSet rst=null;
Statement stmt=null;

try{
String
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/books?user=
<user>&password=<password>";
con=DriverManager.getConnection(url);
stmt=con.createStatement();
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
if(request.getParameter("action") != null){ 
String
bookname=request.getParameter("bookname");
String
author=request.getParameter("author");
stmt.executeUpdate("insert into
books_details(book_name,
author) values('"+bookname+"','"+author+"')");
rst=stmt.executeQuery("select * from
books_details");
%>
<html>
<body>
<center>
<h2>Books List</h2>
<table border="1"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding
="0">
<tr>
<td><b>S.No</b></td>
<td><b>Book
Name</b></td>

<td><b>Author</.b></td>
</tr>
<%
int no=1;
while(rst.next()){
%>
<tr>
<td><%=no%></td>
<td><
%=rst.getString("
book_name")%></td>
<td> <
%=rst.getString("author")
%> </td>
</tr>
<%
no++;
}
rst.close();
stmt.close();
con.close();
%>
</table>
</center>
</body>
</html>
<%}else{%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Book Entry FormDocument</title>
<script language="javascript">
function validate(objForm){

if(objForm.bookname.value.length==0){
alert("Please enter Book
Name!");
objForm.bookname.focus();
return false;
}

if(objForm.author.value.length==0){
alert("Please enter Author
name!");
objForm.author.focus();
return false;
}
return true;
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<center>
<form action="BookEntryForm.jsp" method="post"
name="entry" onSubmit="return
validate(this)">
<input type="hidden" value="list"
name="action">
<table border="1" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"
align="center">
<h2>Book Entry Form</h2></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Book Name:</td>
<td><input
name="bookname" type=
"text" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td>Author:</td><td><input name=
"author" type="text" size="50"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"
align="center">
<input type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</center>
</body>
</html>
<%}%>

Now we explain the above  codes.

Declaring Variables: Java is a strongly typed language which means, that variables must be
explicitly declared before use and must be declared with the correct data types. In the above
example code we declare some variables for making connection. Theses variables are- 

Connection con=null;
ResultSet rst=null;
Statement stmt=null;

The objects of type Connection, ResultSet and Statement are associated with the Java sql.
"con" is a Connection type object variable that will hold Connection type object. "rst" is a
ResultSet type object variable that will hold a result set returned by a database query. "stmt" is a
object variable of Statement .Statement Class methods allow to execute any query.  

Connection to database: The first task of this programmer is to load database driver. This is
achieved using the single line of code :-
String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
Class.forName(driver).newInstance();

The next task is to make a connection. This is done using the single line of code :-

String url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/books?user=<userName>&password=<password>";
con=DriverManager.getConnection(url);

When url is passed into getConnection() method of DriverManager class it  returns connection
object.   

Executing Query or Accessing data from database:

This is done using following code :-

stmt=con.createStatement(); //create a Statement object 


rst=stmt.executeQuery("select * from books_details");

stmt is the Statement type variable name and rst is the RecordSet type variable. A query is
always executed on a Statement object.
A Statement object is created by calling createStatement() method on connection object con. 

The two most important methods of this Statement interface are executeQuery() and
executeUpdate(). The executeQuery() method executes an SQL statement that returns a single
ResultSet object. The executeUpdate() method executes an insert, update, and delete SQL
statement. The method returns the number of records affected by the SQL statement execution.

After creating a Statement ,a method executeQuery() or  executeUpdate() is called on Statement


object stmt and a SQL query string is passed in method executeQuery() or  executeUpdate().
This will return a ResultSet rst related to the query string.

Reading values from a ResultSet:

while(rst.next()){

   %>

         <tr><td><%=no%></td><td><%=rst.getString("book_name")%></td><td><
%=rst.getString("author")%></td></tr>

  <% 

The ResultSet  represents a table-like database result set. A ResultSet object maintains a
cursor pointing to its current row of data. Initially, the cursor is positioned before the first row.
Therefore, to access the first row in the ResultSet, you use the next() method. This method
moves the cursor to the next record and returns true if the next row is valid, and false if there
are no more records in the ResultSet object.

Other important methods are getXXX() methods, where XXX is the data type returned by the
method at the specified index, including String, long, and int. The indexing used is 1-based.
For example, to obtain the second column of type String, you use the following code:

resultSet.getString(2);

You can also use the getXXX() methods that accept a column name instead of a column index.
For instance, the following code retrieves the value of the column LastName of type String.

resultSet.getString("book_name");

The above example shows how you can use the next() method as well as the getString()
method. Here you retrieve the 'book_name' and 'author' columns from a table called
'books_details'. You then iterate through the returned ResultSet and print all the book name and
author name in the format " book name | author " to the web page.

Summary:

This article presents JDBC and shows how you can manipulate data in a relational database from
your  JSP page. To do this, you need to use  the java.sql package: DriverManager, Connection,
Statement, and ResultSet. Keep in mind, however, that this is only an introduction. To create a
Web application, you need  JDBC to use more features such as prepared statements and
connection pooling.

To Download Example click here

When you click on the above link a Book Entry Form will open

Fill the book name and author fields and press Submit button. A page will open and show  a table
of book name and authors like...

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