Thanks for the reply Amrinder. This was just a little test program. The code which I want for the real version is quite long and complicated so it can't go into the JSP page. Any ideas on what I should do?
CHeers Tony Amrinder, Arora (Meritage) wrote: > Antony, > > why dont you put the code from doPost in Simple as a code snippet in the JSP > page? Primarily that is the purpose of code snippets. If there is any > common functionality that you want in 10 JSPs, you can put them in a > package, and use that package in your 10 java snippets within each JSP page. > > --amrinder > > -----Original Message----- > From: Antony Stace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: JSP/SERVLET DESIGN QUESTION > > > Hi > > I have a question....I want to know if the following is bad design. > > I have a servlet, called Simple, with the following doPost code in it > > [snip] > public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, > HttpServletResponse response) > throws ServletException, IOException > { > PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); > out.println("Simple.doPost() I am a test printing a line from > Simple."); > } > [snip] > > I call this from a jsp file > > ------------------------------ > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> > </HEAD> > > <BODY> > <%@ include file="header.jsp" %> > > <jsp:include page="/servlet/simple" flush="true"> </jsp:include> > > <%@ include file="footer.jsp" %> > </BODY> > </HTML> > ------------------------------ > > Is this a bad design? > > If in the doPost() method in Simple I have a out.close() then the > > [snip] > <%@ include file="footer.jsp" %> > </BODY> > </HTML> > [end of jsp file] > > is not included in the output of the jsp page when it is run. Should > I use a custom taglib instead? > I have a number of pages which I want to have a common header and > footer, but I want the middle part to be constructed by a servlet. Whats > the best way to go about this? ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
