It has to be the servlet's responsibility; otherwise it would not
be possible to write servlets that support HTTP keep-alive (where
the connection is held open to avoid the overhead of establishing
a new connection.)
You can also call flush() to write the data without closing the
stream.
In this case, you might also want to use WebMacro or some other
template system--mixing your HTNL into your application is going
to cause trouble down the line.
See:
http://webmacro.org
for an alternative, anf the article here:
http://webmacro.org/Servlet.html
for the reasons why you want to keep HTML out of your code (and
other general ideas about servlet design.)
Justin
Quoting Bob Withers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> This brings up a question I've had for some time. Whose resposibility is
> it to close the output stream? It would seem reasonable to me that the
> servlet engine should do this but it doesn't seem to hurt anything for the
> servlet to do this (on the few engines I've tried). Does the spec mention
> this? Would it cause a problem for any servlet engine if the servlet
> closed this?
>
> If this isn't mentioned in the spec maybe it should be.
>
> Comments and/or suggestions?
>
> Bob
>
> At 11:44 AM 5/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Try adding out.close(); at the end of the servlet. If you don't close the
> >stream, sometimes the buffer doesn't get written to the browser.
> >
> >At 10:08 AM 6/05/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >> public class Home extends HttpServlet {
> >> public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
> >> throws ServletException, IOException {
> >> res.setContentType("text/html");
> >> PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
> >> out.println("<HTML>");
> >> out.println("<HEAD><TITLE>Hello World</TITLE></HEAD>");
> >> out.println("<BODY>");
> >> out.println("<BIG>Hello World</BIG>");
> >> out.println("</BODY></HTML>");
> > out.close(); <------ NEW LINE
> >> }
> >> }
> >
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