Chapter 19. JSP, Servlets, and SVG

In earlier chapters, we saw how to use client-side techniques to generate and manipulate SVG and briefly discussed how SVG can be generated on the server. The combination of client- and server-side techniques can be extremely powerful, perhaps more so with SVG than any other system or format, thanks to the language's built-in scripting capabilities. Allowing processing at either end produces an explosion in the number of solutions to any given problem. In this chapter, we will look at producing SVG with server-side Java, but to keep things simple, we won't do any real processing on the client.

We will first look at a quick and easy way ...

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