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Lab 4 Servlets

The document provides instructions for creating a dynamic web project in Eclipse, adding a servlet API dependency, creating a Tomcat server, adding an HTML page with a link, and creating a servlet to read and output parameter values from the link.

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Lab 4 Servlets

The document provides instructions for creating a dynamic web project in Eclipse, adding a servlet API dependency, creating a Tomcat server, adding an HTML page with a link, and creating a servlet to read and output parameter values from the link.

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Lab 4 – Servlets

 Launch Eclipse selecting a default workspace


 Create a new Dynamic Web Project
• Use the menu bar to select a new project (Files>New>Project…)
• Search for Dynamic Web Project in the search bar, select the Dynamic Web Project and then “Next >”
• Enter “Lab04_Servlet as the Project Name and then select “Finish >” 1

• Open the EE perspective if prompted (otherwise select Window>Perspective>Open Perspective>Java EE


to open the EE perspective)
Lab 4 – Servlets

Convert the project to a Maven project


• Within the Project Explorer, configure the project as a Maven project (right click on the project>
Configure>Convert to Maven Project)
• Within the Create new POM window, select Finish to convert the project
Lab 4 – Servlets

Add the Servlet API maven dependency to the pom.xml file

• Open the pom.xml file and add the following (immediately before the Build tag):

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>9.0.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

• Save the pom.xml file


• Update the Maven Project
 Within the Explorer window, right click on the project > Maven > Update Project
Lab 4 – Servlets

 Add a Server (if it doesn’t already exist)


• Within the server tab, click on “Click this link to create a new server…” (if this window isn’t visible, then use
the menu bar to make it visible Window>Show Window>Servers…

• Within the New Server window, select Apache>Tome v9.0 Server and then select “Next >”
Lab 4 – Servlets

Add a Server
• Within the New Server window, use Browse… to locate and set the Tomcat Installation directory 1
• Select “Finish” to create the Tomcat Server
Lab 4 – Servlets

Create an HTML starting page

• Within the Project Explorer, right click on WebContent, select New>HTML


• Within the New HTML file window, enter a File name of “index.html” and select “Finish”
Lab 4 – Servlets

Edit the index.html file and add a hyperlink to pass a first_name and a last_name as
parameters using a GET method (which is the default)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="Home?first_name=tony&last_name=stark">Click Me</a>
</body>
</html>
Lab 4 – Servlets

Create a Servlet
• Within the Project Explorer right click on the Java Resources, select New>Servlet

• Within the Create Servlet window enter a Java package name of “com.example”, enter a Class name of
“Home”, and then select “Finish”
Lab 4 – Servlets

Edit the Servlet file and modify the doGet method to read the first_name and
last_name, and output their values

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)


throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
String first_name = request.getParameter("first_name");
String last_name = request.getParameter("last_name");
out.println( "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n" +
"<head><title>Process Servlet Parameters</title></head>\n" +
"<body>\n" +
"<ul>\n" +
" <li><b>First Name</b>: " + first_name + "\n" +
" <li><b>Last Name</b>: " + last_name + "\n" +
"</ul>\n" +
"</body>" +
"</html>");
}
Lab 4 – Servlets

 Use an external Web Browser (if not already configured)


• On the menu bar select Window>Web Browser > Chrome if it exists or anything other than Internal Web
Browser 1
 Run the index.html on Tomcat
• Within the Project Explorer window, right click on the index.html file and select Run>Run on Server
• Confirm that Tomcat v9.0 Server at localhost is selected and then select “Finish”
Lab 4 – Servlets

Confirm that something similar to the following is displayed in an external Web


Browser after the “Click Me” hyperlink is selected in the Web Browser

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