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The Search Results Page

Now that we have our form, we need to provide an action for it. First, we'll create the SearchResults servlet, which echoes back our entry, as in Listing 7.11.

Listing 7.11. SearchResults.java: Creating the Servlet

0:import java.io.*; 1:import javax.servlet.*; 2:import javax.servlet.http.*; 3: 4:public class SearchResults extends HttpServlet { 5: 6: public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, 7: HttpServletResponse response) 8: throws IOException, ServletException 9: { 10: response.setContentType("text/html"); 11: PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); 12: 13: String key = request.getParameter("key"); 14: out.print("Results for keyword: " + key + "<br /><br />"); 15: 16: } 17: 18: 19: public void doPost(HttpServletRequest ...