Professional Java for Web Applications

Chapter 4Using JSPs to Display Content

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Using <br /> is easier than output.println("<br />")
• Creating your first JSP
• Using Java within a JSP (and why you shouldn’t)
• Combining Servlets and JSPs
• A note about JSP Documents (JSPX)

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

You can find the wrox.com code downloads for this chapter at www.wrox.com/go/projavaforwebapps on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:

• Hello-World-JSP Project
• Hello-User-JSP Project
• Customer-Support-v2 Project

NEW MAVEN DEPENDENCIES FOR THIS CHAPTER

In addition to the Maven dependency introduced in the previous chapter, you will also need the following Maven dependencies. The exclusions are necessary because the JSTL implementation defines transient dependencies on older versions of the JSP and Servlet specifications that have different Maven artifact IDs than the current versions.

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl</groupId> <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-api</artifactId> <version>1.2.1</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId> <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl</artifactId> <version>1.2.2</version> <scope>compile</scope> <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId> ...