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10/18/21, 8:39 PM Servlets - Database Access

Servlets - Database Access

This tutorial assumes you have understanding on how JDBC application works. Before starting
with database access through a servlet, make sure you have proper JDBC environment setup
along with a database.

For more detail on how to access database using JDBC and its environment setup you can go
through our JDBC Tutorial .
To start with basic concept, let us create a simple table and create few records in that table as
follows −

Create Table
To create the Employees table in TEST database, use the following steps −

Step 1

Open a Command Prompt and change to the installation directory as follows −

C:\>
C:\>cd Program Files\MySQL\bin
C:\Program Files\MySQL\bin>

Step 2

Login to database as follows

C:\Program Files\MySQL\bin>mysql -u root -p


Enter password: ********
mysql>

Step 3

Create the table Employee in TEST database as follows −

mysql> use TEST;


mysql> create table Employees (
id int not null,
age int not null,
first varchar (255),
last varchar (255)
);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.08 sec)
mysql>

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Create Data Records

Finally you create few records in Employee table as follows −

mysql> INSERT INTO Employees VALUES (100, 18, 'Zara', 'Ali');


Query OK, 1 row affected (0.05 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO Employees VALUES (101, 25, 'Mahnaz', 'Fatma');


Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO Employees VALUES (102, 30, 'Zaid', 'Khan');


Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO Employees VALUES (103, 28, 'Sumit', 'Mittal');


Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql>

Accessing a Database
Here is an example which shows how to access TEST database using Servlet.

// Loading required libraries


import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.sql.*;

public class DatabaseAccess extends HttpServlet{

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)


throws ServletException, IOException {

// JDBC driver name and database URL


static final String JDBC_DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
static final String DB_URL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/TEST";

// Database credentials
static final String USER = "root";
static final String PASS = "password";

// Set response content type


response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
String title = "Database Result";

String docType =
"<!doctype html public \"-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 " + "transitional//en\">\n";
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out.println(docType +
"<html>\n" +
"<head><title>" + title + "</title></head>\n" +
"<body bgcolor = \"#f0f0f0\">\n" +
"<h1 align = \"center\">" + title + "</h1>\n");
try {
// Register JDBC driver
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");

// Open a connection
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL, USER, PASS);

// Execute SQL query


Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
String sql;
sql = "SELECT id, first, last, age FROM Employees";
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(sql);

// Extract data from result set


while(rs.next()){
//Retrieve by column name
int id = rs.getInt("id");
int age = rs.getInt("age");
String first = rs.getString("first");
String last = rs.getString("last");

//Display values

out.println("ID: " + id + "<br>");


out.println(", Age: " + age + "<br>");
out.println(", First: " + first + "<br>");
out.println(", Last: " + last + "<br>");
}
out.println("</body></html>");

// Clean-up environment
rs.close();
stmt.close();
conn.close();
} catch(SQLException se) {
//Handle errors for JDBC
se.printStackTrace();
} catch(Exception e) {
//Handle errors for Class.forName
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
//finally block used to close resources
try {
if(stmt!=null)
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stmt.close();
} catch(SQLException se2) {
} // nothing we can do
try {
if(conn!=null)
conn.close();
} catch(SQLException se) {
se.printStackTrace();
} //end finally try
} //end try
}
}

Now let us compile above servlet and create following entries in web.xml

....
<servlet>
<servlet-name>DatabaseAccess</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>DatabaseAccess</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>DatabaseAccess</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/DatabaseAccess</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
....

Now call this servlet using URL http://localhost:8080/DatabaseAccess which would display
following response −

Database Result

ID: 100, Age: 18, First: Zara, Last: Ali


ID: 101, Age: 25, First: Mahnaz, Last: Fatma
ID: 102, Age: 30, First: Zaid, Last: Khan
ID: 103, Age: 28, First: Sumit, Last: Mittal

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