Hi tom,
thanks. I will definitely check the book.
By the way, do you mean that I should use FrontPage or
other tools to create a html file with a layout I want
and then modify the html file? Please bear me such
stupid question.
Thanks & regards
teng
--- Tom Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Teng:
>
> It sounds like your application consists of
> 'boilerplate'
> html (lots of static html with a few simple variable
> replacements for name, address, etc...).
>
> If this is this case, then JSP will suit you very
> nicely.
>
> No need to use println statements at all.
>
> You'll need to write a bean that provides getter
> methods to retrieve the value(s) you want to
> plug in to your html (e.g. getName(), getAddress()
> ).
>
>
> Then you can write a jsp file that looks
> something like this:
>
> <%@ page language="java" import="com.mydomain.*" %>
> <jsp:useBean id="customer" scope="request"
> class="com.mydomain.Customer"/>
> <jsp:setProperty name="customer" property="*"/>
> <html>
> <head><title>Customer <jsp:getProperty
> name="customer"
> property="name"/></title></head>
> <body>
>
> Customer name: <jsp:getProperty name="customer"
> property="name"/><br>
> Address: <jsp:getProperty name="customer"
> property="address"/><br>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> The above jsp file will populate all properties of
> the
> Customer from request parameters (that came from a
> POST or GET request via a user form).
>
> Note that '<jsp:getProperty name="customer"
> property="address"/>' will be
> replaced with
> the value returned by the call to
> "customer.getAddress()" where "customer"
> is defined
> as:
> com.mydomain.Customer customer = new
> com.mydomain.Customer();
>
> There is alot more to JSP's than this. It's best to
> pickup a good book
> (I like Professional JSP from Wrox press) and delve
> into the details.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Tom
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "renyu teng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Tomcat Users List"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Drake"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 7:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Create JSP file or a Servlet file for
> web browser.
>
>
> |
> |
> | Hi tom,
> |
> | thanks for your response.
> |
> | Actually my question is very simple: if I use
> | FrontPage to create a html file, and I want to
> dump
> | this html file with a little bit change (e.g.
> name,
> | address,etc), then should I use println to do it?
> If
> | it is the only choice, then I have to accept it.
> |
> | All the books about jsp or servlet I have gone
> through
> | in the book store are always giving simple
> examples
> | using println, I can't image I could follow this
> | approach to create html file as I could no way
> control
> | the layout. There should a tool like FrontPage so
> I
> | could create whatever pages I want with images,
> text,
> | different fonts, colors etc., then I could dump
> this
> | html file into web browser with my own
> modification
> | through jsp or servlet. Starting Hello World with
> c,
> | you have a new C world, but with jsp,you can't go
> far
> | as you can't use println to control layout which
> is
> | crucial for web browser.
> |
> | regards
> | teng
> |
> | --- Tom Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | > Please provide some more details. Your
> description
> | > is really
> | > too vague to respond to.
> | >
> | > However, If you are attempting to generate a
> | > 'complicated'
> | > html document, a JSP or set of JSP (with JSP or
> HTML
> | > includes) provides ample means for generating
> highly
> | > complicated HTML. You may want to consider using
> | > CSS as well. This may simplify your html
> somewhat.
> | >
> | > You're right about using 'out.println("...");'.
> This
> | > technique is
> | > extremely clumsy, and difficult to maintain.
> JSP's
> | > give you
> | > the ability to write plain-vanilla HTML, which
> you
> | > can intersperse
> | > with java code that can do the fancy stuff. When
> you
> | > add
> | > taglibs to the mix, then you can do some very
> | > powerful things
> | > with some fairly simple HTML / XML.
> | >
> | > Regards,
> | >
> | > Tom Drake
> | >
> | > ----- Original Message -----
> | > From: "renyu teng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | > To: "Tomcat Users List"
> | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 6:09 PM
> | > Subject: Create JSP file or a Servlet file for
> web
> | > browser.
> | >
> | >
> | > |
> | > | As a new guy to use tomcat, I have the
> following
> | > | question:
> | > |
> | > | if I want to dump the response to a web
> browser,
> | > then
> | > | I need to format this into html or xml.
> However,
> | > it is
> | > | really complicate html file, I should have
> tools
> | > to do
> | > | it, right? I feel it is too clumsy to write
> all
> | > the
> | > | html text through out.println. How the
> complicated
> | > web
> | > | pages are created in the really project? could
> | > anyone
> | > | please shed some light to it? I have gone
> throught
> | > | some jsp & servlet books, and the projects
> inside
> | > the
> | > | books are really too simple.
> | > |
> | > | how could a complicated web pages are created
> | > through
> | > | println statement? And if so, how could you
> | > control
> | > | the layout? I feel it is impossible, but I may
> be
> | > | wrong.
> | > |
> | > | thanks.
>
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