Web Component Development Using Servlet & JSP Technologies (EE6) - Chapter 1 - Introduction to Java Servlet

Web Component Development Using
Servlet & JSP Technologies (EE6)
Module -1: Introduction to Java Servlet

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Objectives
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
● Outline Java Servlet technology

Relevance
● Discussion – The following questions are relevant to understanding
what technologies are available for developing web applications and
the limitations of those technologies:
– What web applications have you developed?
– Did your web technology allow you to achieve your goals?

HTTP Client-Server
Architecture
HTTP Daemon is a software program that runs in the background of a web server and
waits for the incoming server requests. The daemon answers the request automatically and
serves the hypertext and multimedia documents over the internet using HTTP.

Web Application
Directory Structure

Uniform Resource
Locator (URL)
protocol://host:port/path/file
http://www.soccer.org:80/league/Spring2001.html
● A URL locates a specific resource on the Internet.
● The path element includes the complete directory structure path to
find the file.
● The port number is used to identify the port that is used by the
protocol on the server.
● If the port number is the standard port for the given protocol, then that
number can be ignored in the URL

Web Sites and Web
Applications
● A web site is a collection of static files, HTML pages, graphics, and
various other files.
● A web application is an element of a web site that provides dynamic
functionality on the server.
● A web application runs a program or programs on the server.

Common Gateway Interface
(CGI)
● The Common Gateway Interface, which is normally referred
as CGI, was one of the practical technique developed for
creating dynamic content.
● By using the CGI, a web server passes requests to an
external program and after executing the program the
content is sent to the client as the output.
● In CGI when a server receives a request it creates a new
process to run the CGI program, so creating a process for
each request requires significant server resources and time,
which limits the number of requests that can be processed
concurrently.

Common Gateway Interface
(CGI)
● CGI applications are platform dependent.
● There is no doubt that CGI played a major role in the explosion of the
Internet but its performance, scalability issues make it less than
optimal solutions.

Advantages of CGI
Programs
● CGI programs have the following advantages:
– Programs can be written in a variety of languages, although they
are primarily written in Perl.
– A CGI program with bugs does not crash the web server.
– Because CGI programs execute in separate processes,
concurrency issues are isolated at the database.
– CGI support is very common.

Disadvantages of CGI
Programs
● CGI program also have the following distinct disadvantages:
● The response time of CGI programs is high because the creation of a
new process is a heavyweight activity for the operating system (OS).
● CGI does not scale well.
● The languages for CGI are not always secure or object-oriented.
● The CGI script has to generate an HTML response,so the CGI code
is mingled with HTML. This is not good separation of presentation
and business logic.

Java Servlets
● Unlike CGI, Servlets don't use multiple processes to handle separate
request.
● Servets can be handled by separate threads within the same
process. Servlets are also portable and platform independent.
● Servlets are used with web servers and run inside a Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) on the server so these are safe and portable.

Java Servlets

Advantages of Java Servlets
●
Each request is run in a separate thread within a single process, so servlet
request processing is significantly faster than traditional CGI processing.
● Servlets are much more scalable than CGI. Many more requests can be
executed because the web container uses a thread rather than an OS
process. Threads are lightweight and the host OS can support many more
of them.
● Servlets benefit from the simple, robust, platform independent, and object-
oriented nature of the Java programming language.
●
Servlets have access to standardized and easy-to-use logging capabilities.
●
The web container provides additional services to the servlets, such
as error handling and security.

Disadvantages of Java
Servlets
● Servlets can only be written in the Java programming language, so
developers are required to be competent with this language.
● Servlets might introduce new concurrency issues not found in CGI.

Java Servlet Recap
● Servlets run within the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
component container architecture.
● This container is called the web container (also known as the servlet
engine).
● The web container is a JavaTM technology program that implements
the servlet application programming interface (API)
● Servlets are components that respond to HTTP requests.
● The web container performs initial processing, and selects the
intended servlet to handle the request.
● The container also controls the life-cycle of the servlet.

Web Server Architecture
With Java Servlets

A First Java Servlet
● A servlet is invoked by the web container when an appropriate request
is received by that container. In Java EE 6, an annotation specifies the
URL (or URL pattern) that the servlet is used to respond to.
● The method in the servlet that is invoked depends on the type of
HTTP request so, for example, an HTTP GET request will invoke the
doGet method in the servlet.
● The doGet method takes two parameters, one which carries
information related to the original request, and another which provides
for control of the response.
● The servlet’s job is two-fold. First, it must perform the required
computation; second, it must present the results in a well-formed
HTML page.

The Code for a very
Simple Servlet
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import java.io.*;
public class DemoServlet extends HttpServlet{
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)
throws ServletException,IOException
{
res.setContentType("text/html");//setting the content type
PrintWriter pw=res.getWriter();//get the stream to write the data
}}

HTTP Methods
● GET : Asks to get the resource at the requested URL.
● POST: Asks the server to accept the body info attached. It is like GET
request with extra info sent with the request.
● HEAD: Asks for only the header part of whatever a GET would
return. Just like GET but with no body.
● PUT: Asks for the loop back of the request message, for testing or
troubleshooting.

HTTP Methods
● DELETE: Says to put the enclosed info (the body) at the requested
URL.
● OPTIONS: Says to delete the resource at the requested URL.
● TRACE: Asks for a list of the HTTP methods to which the thing at the
request URL can respond

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