Chapter 17. Browser-Server Interaction

Designing Your Web Screens

Even after you master Java Server Pages and servlets, many challenges still await you when you lay out your Web pages. When the user submits form data, should you redraw the entire page or just a portion? Do you want to redraw anything at all? Some of these decisions might be out of your control because the overall structure of the Web site and the individual Web pages might be given to you ahead of time.

Your decisions might also be influenced by the amount of data you need to keep on the client. If you need to store data on the client and ...

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