Chapter 15. Integrating Servlets and JSP: The Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture

Topics in This Chapter

  • Understanding the benefits of MVC

  • Using RequestDispatcher to implement MVC

  • Forwarding requests from servlets to JSP pages

  • Handling relative URLs

  • Choosing among different display options

  • Comparing data-sharing strategies

  • Forwarding requests from JSP pages

  • Including pages instead of forwarding to them

Servlets are good at data processing: reading and checking data, communicating with databases, invoking business logic, and so on. JSP pages are good at presentation: building HTML to represent the results of requests. This chapter describes how to combine servlets and JSP pages to best make use of the strengths of each technology.

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