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An Introduction To Developing Java Web Applications
An Introduction To Developing Java Web Applications
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The original tutorial can be found at netbeans.org. All credits must go to the original authors. In this tutorial we try to refine all the steps to more details using screen shots. Machine specification used in this task are: Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo, 2.2 GHz, Windows XP Pro SP2 + periodical patches + periodical updatesn 2 GB DDR2 RAM 160 GB SATA HDD 17o SyncMaster 713N monitor. Pre requirement 1. NetBeans 6.x.x 2. To work through this tutorial, you must have a server registered in the IDE. The Web and Java EE installation enables you to optionally install and register the Apache Tomcat servlet container 6.0.14, and the GlassFish V2 application server. 3. If you are installing NetBeans IDE for the first time, you need to have the Java SE Development Kit (JDK) installed. The JDK includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), as well as various tools and API's necessary for development in Java. Setting Up a Web Application Project 1. Choose File > New Project (Ctrl-Shift-N) from the main menu. Under Categories, select Web. Under Projects, select Web Application then click Next.
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In Step 2, enter HelloWeb in the Project Name text box. Notice that the Context Path (i.e., on the server) becomes /HelloWeb. 3. Specify the Project Location to any directory on your computer. For purposes of this tutorial, this directory is referred to as $PROJECTHOME . 4. Select the server to which you want to deploy your application. Only servers that ar e registered with the IDE are listed. In this case we select GlassFish V2. Click Next.
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Leave the Set as Main Project option selected and click Finish. The IDE creates the $PROJECTHOME/HelloWebproject folder. The project folder contains all of your sources and project metadata, such as the project's Ant build script. The HelloWeb project opens in the IDE. The welcome page, index.jsp, opens in the Source Editor in the main window. You can view the project's file structure in the Files window (Ctrl-2), and its logical stru cture in the Projects window (Ctrl-1):
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Creating and Editing Web Application Source Files Creating and editing source files is the most important function that the IDE serves . After all, that is probably what you spend most of your day doing. The IDE provides a wide range of tools that can compliment any developer's personal style, whether you prefer to code everything by hand or want the IDE to generate large chunks of code for you. Creating a Java Package and a Java Source File 1. In the Projects window, expand the Source Packages node. Note the Source Packages no de only contains an empty default package node.
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Right-click the Source Packages node and choose New > Java Class. Enter NameHandler in the Class Name text box and type org.mypackage.hello in the Package combo box. Click Finish. Notice that the new NameHandler.java file opens in the Source Editor.
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In the Source Editor, declare a String variable by typing the following line directl y below the class declaration: String name;
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Generating Getter and Setter Methods 1. Right-click the name field in the Source Editor and choose Refactor > Encapsulate Fi elds. The Encapsulate Fields dialog opens, listing the name field. Notice that Fields' Vis ibility is by default set to private, and Accessors' Visibility to public, indicating that the acc ess modifier for class variable declaration will be specified as private, whereas getter and setter methods will be generated with public and private modifiers, respectively.
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Click Refactor. Getter and setter methods are generated for the name field. The modi fier for the class variable is set to private while getter and setter methods are generated w ith public modifiers. The Java class should now look similar to the following:
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Editing the Default JavaServer Pages File 1. 2. Refocus the index.jsp file by clicking its tab displayed at the top of the Source Ed itor. In the Palette (Ctrl-Shift-8) located to the right of the Source Editor, expand HTML Forms and drag a Form item to a point after the <h1> tags into the Source Editor. The Insert F orm dialog box displays:
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Specify the following values: Action: response.jsp Method: GET Name: Name Input Form
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Drag a Text Input item to a point just before the </form> tag, then specify the following values: Name: name Type: text
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Click OK. An HTML <input> tag is added between the <form> tags.
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Delete the empty value= " " attribute. The code should be like this: <input type="text" name="name" />
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Drag a Button item to a point just before the </form> tag. Specify the following values:
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Label: OK Type: submit 9. Click OK. An HTML button is added between the <form> tags.
10. Delete the empty value= " " attribute. Type Enter your name: just before the <input> tag, then change the default JSP Page text between the <h1> tags to Entry Form.
11. Right-click within the Source Editor and choose Format (Alt-Shift-F) to tidy the for mat of your code. Your index.jsp file should now appear similar to the following:
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<%@page contentType="text/html"%> <%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>JSP Page</title> </head> <body> <h1>Entry Form</h1> <form name="Name Input Form" action="response.jsp"> Enter your name: <input type="text" name="name" /> <input type="submit" value="OK" /> </form> </body> </html>
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In the Projects window, right-click the HelloWeb project node and choose New > JSP. The New JSP File wizard opens. Name the file response, and click Finish. Notice that a response.jsp file node displays in the Projects window beneath index.jsp and the new file opens in the Source Editor.
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In the Palette to the right of the Source Editor, expand JSP and drag a Use Bean ite m to a point just below the <body> tag in the Source Editor.
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The Insert Use Bean dialog opens. Specify the following values: ID: mybean Class: org.mypackage.hello.NameHandler Scope: session
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Click OK. Notice that <jsp:useBean> tags is added beneath the <body> tag.
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Drag a Set Bean Property item from the Palette to a point just before the <h1> tag a nd click OK.
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In the <jsp:setProperty> tag that appears, delete the empty value (value="") attribute and edit
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as follows: <jsp:setProperty name="mybean" property="name" /> As indicated in the <jsp:setProperty> documentation, you can set a property value in various ways. In this case, the user input coming from index.jsp becomes a name/value pair t hat is passed to the request object. When you set a property using the <jsp:setProperty> ta g, you can specify the value according to the name of a property contained in the request o bject. Therefore, by setting property to name, you can retrieve the value specified by user input. 7. Change the text between the <h2> tags so that it looks like this: <h1>Hello, !</h1> and delete the value="" attribute.
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Drag a Get Bean Property item from the Palette and drop it after the comma between t he <h1> tags.
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Specify the following values in the Insert Get Bean Property dialog: Bean Name: mybean Property Name: name
10. Click OK. Notice that <jsp:getProperty> tag is now added between the <h1> tags.
11. Right-click within the Source Editor and choose Format (Alt-Shift-F) to tidy the for mat of your code. The <body> tags of your response.jsp file should now appear similar to the fol lowing:
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<%@page contentType="text/html"%> <%@page 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>JSP Page</title> </head> <body> <jsp:useBean id="mybean" scope="session" class="org.mypackage.hello.Name <jsp:setProperty name="mybean" property="name" /> <h1>Hello,<jsp:getProperty name="mybean" property="name" /> !</h1> </body> </html> Building and Running a Web Application Project The IDE uses an Ant build script to build and run your web applications. The IDE gen erates the build script based on the options you specify in the New Project wizard, as well as those from the project's Project Properties dialog box (In the Projects window, choose Properties f rom the project node's right click menu). 1. In the Projects window, right-click the HelloWeb project node and choose Run (F6). T he IDE builds the web application and deploys it to the server you specified when creating the project. The index.jsp page opens in your default browser:
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This concludes the Introduction to Developing Web Applications tutorial. This docume nt demonstrated how to create a simple web application using NetBeans IDE, deploy it to a server, and view its presentation in a browser. It also showed how to use JavaServer Pages and JavaBeans in your application to collect, persist, and output user data.
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