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    Lab 4 – Servlets

     Launch Eclipse selecting a default workspace


     Create a new Dynamic Web Project
    • Use the menu bar to select a new project (Files>New>Project…)
    • Search for Dynamic Web Project in the search bar, select the Dynamic Web Project and then “Next >”
    • Enter “Lab04_Servlet as the Project Name and then select “Finish >” 1

    • Open the EE perspective if prompted (otherwise select Window>Perspective>Open Perspective>Java EE


    to open the EE perspective)
    Lab 4 – Servlets

    Convert the project to a Maven project


    • Within the Project Explorer, configure the project as a Maven project (right click on the project>
    Configure>Convert to Maven Project)
    • Within the Create new POM window, select Finish to convert the project
    Lab 4 – Servlets

    Add the Servlet API maven dependency to the pom.xml file

    • Open the pom.xml file and add the following (immediately before the Build tag):

    <dependencies>
    <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>9.0.1</version>
    </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    • Save the pom.xml file


    • Update the Maven Project
     Within the Explorer window, right click on the project > Maven > Update Project
    Lab 4 – Servlets

     Add a Server (if it doesn’t already exist)


    • Within the server tab, click on “Click this link to create a new server…” (if this window isn’t visible, then use
    the menu bar to make it visible Window>Show Window>Servers…

    • Within the New Server window, select Apache>Tome v9.0 Server and then select “Next >”
    Lab 4 – Servlets

    Add a Server
    • Within the New Server window, use Browse… to locate and set the Tomcat Installation directory 1
    • Select “Finish” to create the Tomcat Server
    Lab 4 – Servlets

    Create an HTML starting page

    • Within the Project Explorer, right click on WebContent, select New>HTML


    • Within the New HTML file window, enter a File name of “index.html” and select “Finish”
    Lab 4 – Servlets

    Edit the index.html file and add a hyperlink to pass a first_name and a last_name as
    parameters using a GET method (which is the default)

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta charset="ISO-8859-1">
    <title>Insert title here</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <a href="Home?first_name=tony&last_name=stark">Click Me</a>
    </body>
    </html>
    Lab 4 – Servlets

    Create a Servlet
    • Within the Project Explorer right click on the Java Resources, select New>Servlet

    • Within the Create Servlet window enter a Java package name of “com.example”, enter a Class name of
    “Home”, and then select “Finish”
    Lab 4 – Servlets

    Edit the Servlet file and modify the doGet method to read the first_name and
    last_name, and output their values

    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)


    throws ServletException, IOException {
    response.setContentType("text/html");
    PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
    String first_name = request.getParameter("first_name");
    String last_name = request.getParameter("last_name");
    out.println( "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n" +
    "<head><title>Process Servlet Parameters</title></head>\n" +
    "<body>\n" +
    "<ul>\n" +
    " <li><b>First Name</b>: " + first_name + "\n" +
    " <li><b>Last Name</b>: " + last_name + "\n" +
    "</ul>\n" +
    "</body>" +
    "</html>");
    }
    Lab 4 – Servlets

     Use an external Web Browser (if not already configured)


    • On the menu bar select Window>Web Browser > Chrome if it exists or anything other than Internal Web
    Browser 1
     Run the index.html on Tomcat
    • Within the Project Explorer window, right click on the index.html file and select Run>Run on Server
    • Confirm that Tomcat v9.0 Server at localhost is selected and then select “Finish”
    Lab 4 – Servlets

    Confirm that something similar to the following is displayed in an external Web


    Browser after the “Click Me” hyperlink is selected in the Web Browser

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