Dear bluechips23,
Why don't you use google plugin for eclipse?
Then you can easily create a GAE app and add servlets as you need.
Hope this helps you.
Thank you and best regards
Aruna
On 22 February 2012 09:57, bluechips23 <bluechips...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to GAE and Java servlets. I created a Java web application on
> Eclipse as a Dynamic Web Project, which works perfectly. But now I am
> trying to port to GAE. The whole application basically has two parts:
>
> a) The front page (index.html) - it has three text boxes where people can
> enter any text there.
> b) The second page - getlist.html (resulting from the servlet) - this page
> is created by the Java servlet.
>
> Basic behavior is as follows:
> 1) The user goes to the front page and enters three shopping items (e.g.
> XBox, iPhone, iPad) and clicks on the "submit" button
> 2) On clicking the "submit" button, the user is directed to the
> getlist.html page, where he sees his shopping list (e.g. XBox, iPhone,
> iPad) - the same items he listed on the front page.
>
> Basically, I created the servlet that takes the text entered in the 1st
> page as parameters and shows them in the 2nd page (like a form submission).
> To do that, on the index.html file, on "submit" button, I have the
> following code, followed by the text boxes and submit button:
>
>> <form name="input" ACTION="getlist">
>>
> where, "getlist" calls the "getlist" servlet to fire up.
>
> Then, I wrote the servlet part and named it "getlist" as I want that
> servlet to fire it up when I click the "submit" button and process my input
> from index.html and generate an output to "getlist.html" page. So, in my
> "GetList" class I have the follow snippet:
>
>> @WebServlet("/getlist")
>>
>> public class GetList extends HttpServlet {}
>>
>>
> Now my questions are:
> a) I realized that GAE supports only servlet-api.jar version 2.5, so
> "@WebServlet("/getlist") throws error for me. What can I do about that? How
> do I identify that servlet as the "getlist" servlet to be called from my
> index.html page?
> b) The "submit" button on index.html no longer prompts the GetList class
> to run. In fact, when I run my GAE web application, it only runs the
> "GetList" class (and not the index.html) to start things off. So my
> question would be, what should I be doing to make the above scenario work
> with GAE? May be the better questions can be i) how do I call one servlet
> from another, or ii) how do I call the "getlist" servlet from a "submit"
> button in GAE, like I am being able to do in Eclipse as a Dynamic Web
> Project?
>
> I'm still new to all this, so I am learning. So feel free to let me know
> if there is a better way to handle all this.
>
> Thanks!
>
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