Sams Teach Yourself J2EE™ in 21 Days, Second Edition

Adding a Web Interface to the Agency Case Study

Now that you have seen many of the features of JavaServer Pages, you are in a position to add a Web front-end to the Agency case study. You will only develop a simple, but functional, Web interface; it may not be too pretty, but it will work.

NOTE

The examples shown in the remainder of this chapter and on the accompanying Web site have been written to the JSP 1.2 specification (without using the EL). On Day 14, you will refactor this code to use JSTL and the Element Language. If you are unlikely to be working with 1.2 JSPs you can skip these examples and today's exercise and move straight on to Day 14.

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