April 2001
Intermediate to advanced
780 pages
23h 48m
English
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Chapter 16. Element Construction Set
The Element Construction Set (ECS) package takes a dramatically different approach to content generation than JSP, Tea, and WebMacro. ECS abstracts away the HTML text and treats HTML as just another set of Java objects. A web page in ECS is manipulated as an object that can contain other HTML objects (such as lists and tables) that can contain yet more HTML objects (such as list items and table cells). This “object-oriented HTML generation” model proves to be very powerful, but also very programmer-centric.
Stephan Nagy and Jon Stevens wrote ECS and released it as open source as part of the Java Apache Project, using the Apache license of course. They modeled the library after the commercial htmlKona product from WebLogic, a product which lost support when WebLogic was purchased by BEA Systems. Here we talk about ECS Version 1.3.3, available at http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs.
Page Components as Objects
ECS includes classes for all HTML 4.0 constructs. Example 16-1 shows how a simple HTML page can be constructed with ECS.
Example 16-1. A Page as a Set of Objects
import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import org.apache.ecs.*; import org.apache.ecs.html.*; public class ECSHello extends HttpServlet { public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException { res.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = res.getWriter(); Document doc = new Document(); ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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