JavaServer Pages 3e

Hans Bergsten is the founder of Gefion Software, a company focused on Java services and products based on the J2EE technlogies. Hans has been an active participant in the working groups for both the servlet and JSP specifications from the time they were formed. He also contributes to other related JCP specifications, such as JSP Standard Tag Libraries (JSTL), and helped get the development of the Apache Tomcat reference implementation for servlet and JSP started as one of the initial members of the Apache Jakarta Project Management Committee.

Preface; Part I. JSP Application Basics; 1. Introducing JavaServer Pages; What Is JavaServer Pages?; Why Use JSP?; What You Need to Get Started; 2. HTTP and Servlet Basics; The HTTP Request/Response Model; Servlets; 3. JSP Overview; The Problem with Servlets The Anatomy of a JSP Page; JSP Processing; JSP Application Design with MVC; 4. Setting Up the JSP Environment; Installing the Java Software Development Kit; Installing the Tomcat Server; Testing Tomcat; Installing the Book Examples; Example Web Application Overview; Part II. JSP Application Development; 5. Generating Dynamic Content; Creating a JSP Page; Installing a JSP Page Running a JSP Page; Using JSP Directive Elements; Using Template Text; Using JSP Action Elements; 6. Using JavaBeans Components in JSP Pages; What Is a Bean?; Declaring a Bean in a JSP Page Reading Bean Properties; Setting Bean Properties; 7. Using Custom Tag Libraries and the JSP Standard Tag Library; What Is a Custom Tag Library?; Installing a Custom Tag Library; Declaring a Custom Tag Library; Using Actions from a Tag Library; 8. Processing Input and Output; Reading Request Parameter Values; Validating User Input Formatting HTML Output; 9. Error Handling and Debugging; Dealing with Syntax Errors; Debugging a JSP Application; Dealing with Runtime Errors; 10. Sharing Data Between JSP Pages, Requests, and Users; Passing Control and Data Between Pages; Sharing Session and Application Data; Online Shopping; Memory Usage Considerations 11. Developing Custom Tag Libraries as Tag Files; Creating and Using a Tag File; Accessing Attribute Values; Processing the Action Body; Processing Fragment Attributes; Exposing Data to the Calling Page Through Variables; Aborting the Page Processing Packaging Tag Files for Easy Reuse; 12. Accessing a Database Accessing a Database from a JSP Page; Validating Complex Input Without a Bean; Using Transactions; Application-Specific Database Actions; 13. Authentication and Personalization; Container-Provided Authentication; Application-Controlled Authentication Other Security Concerns; 14. Internationalization; How Java Supports Internationalization and Localization; Generating Localized Output; A Brief History of Bits; Handling Localized Input 15. Working with XML Data; Generating an XML Response; Transforming XML into HTML; Transforming XML into a Device-Dependent Format; Processing XML Data; 16. Using Scripting; Elements; Using page Directive Scripting Attributes; Implicit JSP Scripting Objects; Using Scriptlets; Using Expressions Using Declarations; Mixing Action Elements and Scripting Elements Dealing with Scripting Syntax Errors; 17. Bits and Pieces Buffering; Including Page Segments; Global Configuration Options Mixing Client-Side and Server-Side Code; Precompiling JSP Pages Preventing Caching of JSP Pages; Writing JSP Pages as XML Documents How URIs Are Interpreted; Part III. JSP in J2EE and JSP Component Development; 18. Web Application Models; The Java 2 Enterprise Edition Model; The MVC