Taglibs work very well for this. In fact I made a simple taglib in
about an hour that handles mail like this:
<m:mail>
<m:from> me </m:from>
<m:to> <%=person%> </m:to>
<m:subject> this email </m:subject>
Hello <%=person%>,
Blah blah, I'm the mail body.
</m:mail>
Alterntively you could do:
<m:mail from="me" to="<%=person%>" subject="this email">
Hello <%=person%>,
Blah blah, I'm the mail body
</m:mail>
AT
Geert Van Damme wrote:
>
> That's what I was saying in my messages about JSP and mail.
> This has hardly anything to do with JSP (I'm not saying it's a bad solution,
> it's just not real JSP) This is just plain servlets and HTML.
> Let me explain what I expect from a JSP - mail solution.
>
> The problem isn't the sending of the mail itself, there are lots of beans
> available to do that. After all, the SMTP protocol isn't that complicated,
> you could easily create this yourself.
> There are 2 solutions from Sun: one in the sun... packages and javamail. So
> I think you have plenty of choice in components to send a mail message.
> The real problem is that in most cases you want to create dynamic messages.
> Of course it's possible to use code like:
> mailBody.print("Hello ");
> mailBody.print( lastName );
> mailBody.print(" ");
> mailBody.print( firstName );
> mailBody.println(",");
> mailBody.print( "I'd like to tell you about ..." );
>
> The only thing is that JSP was invented to get rid of all those print
> statements. Otherwise we could just as well use plain servlets.
> So what I want is a possibility to create my mailmessage with code like
>
> Hello, <%=lastName%> <%=firstName%>,
> I'd like....
>
> With the servlet I showed a few days ago, this is possible. You just create
> a JSP that creates the body of a mail message and the servlet makes a
> URLConnection to that page to read it and send it to it's destination.
>
> Geert 'Darling' Van Damme
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Deniz Ers z
> > Sent: maandag 8 mei 2000 17:36
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: JSP solution for sending mail...
> >
> >
> > JavaMail bean...
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------
> > ----
> > package mail;
> >
> > import java.io.*;
> > import java.util.*;
> > import java.net.*;
> > import javax.servlet.*;
> > import javax.servlet.http.*;
> > import javax.mail.*;
> > import javax.mail.internet.*;
> >
> > public class JavaMail{
> >
> > private String SMTPHost = "SMTP.ug.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr";
> > String from, to, subject, text;
> >
> > public void setFrom(String name){
> > from = name;
> > }
> > public void setTo(String name){
> > to = name;
> > }
> > public void setSubject(String name){
> > subject = name;
> > }
> >
> > public void setText(String name){
> > text = name;
> > }
> >
> > public String send() {
> >
> > String error = "";
> >
> > try{
> > Properties sysProps = System.getProperties();
> > sysProps.put("mail.smtp.host",SMTPHost);
> > Session session = Session.getInstance(sysProps,null);
> >
> > MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
> >
> > Address fromAddress = new InternetAddress(from);
> > message.setFrom(fromAddress);
> >
> > Address[] toAddress = InternetAddress.parse(to);
> > message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,toAddress);
> >
> > message.setSubject(subject);
> >
> > message.setText(text.toString());
> > Transport.send(message);
> > }
> > catch (AddressException e){
> > error = error + e.getClass() + e.getMessage() + "\n";
> > }
> > catch (SendFailedException e){
> > error = error + e.getClass() + e.getMessage() + "\n";
> > }
> > catch (MessagingException e){
> > error = error + e.getClass() + e.getMessage() + "\n";
> > }
> >
> > return error;
> > }
> > }
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------
> > -----
> > mail.html
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------
> > ------
> > <html>
> >
> > <head>
> > <title>carts</title>
> > </head>
> >
> > <body bgcolor="white">
> >
> > <form type=POST action=mail.jsp>
> > <TABLE>
> > <TR><TD>From:</TD><TD><input type=text name=from></TD></TR>
> > <TR><TD>To:</TD><TD><input type=text name=to></TD></TR>
> > <TR><TD>Subject:</TD><TD><input type=text name=subject></TD></TR>
> > <TR><TD>Text:</TD><TD><TEXTAREA cols=52 name = text rows=5
> > wrap=virtual></TEXTAREA></TD></TR>
> > </TABLE>
> > <input type=submit value = "Submit">
> > </FORM>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------
> > ------
> > mail.jsp
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------
> > ------
> > <html>
> >
> > <jsp:useBean id="mail" scope="session" class="mail.JavaMail" />
> >
> > <jsp:setProperty name="mail" property="*" />
> >
> > <%@ include file ="/db/mail.html" %>
> >
> > <%
> > String error = mail.send();
> > if(error.equals(""))
> > %>
> > Successfull
> > <%
> > else
> > %>
> >
> > <%=error%>
> >
> > </TABLE>
> >
> > </html>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------
> > ------
> >
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