Java EE Web Application Primer: Building Bullhorn: A Messaging App with JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, Bootstrap and Oracle

© Dave Wolf, A.J. Henley 2017

Dave Wolf and A.J. Henley, Java EE Web Application Primer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3195-1_16

16. Make Web Pages Do Something Using JavaScript

Dave Wolf¹  and A. J. Henley²

(1)New York, USA

(2)Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, USA

JavaScript is the language of the browser. It is an object-oriented programming language . Although JavaScript looks much like Java (because both were based on C and C++), it is not at all related. JavaScript is often used to programmatically interact with an HTML page. It does this by interacting with the DOM (document object model . JavaScript is supported by all major browsers).

Include JavaScript in your web page by putting the script between <script> and </script> tags. ...