JSP Getting Started

[sukatoa]

I have a subject that covers JSP(new to me), accessing database through JSP(new to me), applets, UML(also new to me)

So, as im learning java, all i did to learn faster is i've created some applications(wi th sense). With my style of self learning, i hope it could be effective in JSP too....

I like to be advanced on the planned topic to be discussed by our instructor(He is not a certified Java Programmer though)

So now, all i know about JSP is the following:
-basic tags
expression <%= something%>
declaration <%! something%>
i dont know the term <% something %> I think it is an invocation
equivalent to java (Please correct me on that part)

-Setting up tomcat.
-The ROOT folder
-WEB-INF theoritically knew where to put classes/jars etc....
(though im not tested them yet)
-getting the value of a html form through request.getPara meter("form input-type name)

Those are basics obviously...( I learned them through surfing)

And im planning to create a simple application.
What comes on my mind is to reimplement my previous project (Simple Hotel FrontDesk System) into Online Hotel Reservation System
-the registration is obviously done by the hotel frontdesk only....
-Maybe the BlackList feature would be added if i knew the real ( Deep )

Actually, we have proposed a project "Online Entrance Exam" to our instructor and he likes it... so he approved our proposal.....( Not Thesis )

But before we start banging that project, deadline is on October ( Final week in this semester )

I like to grasp the essentials of JSP and also the other techniques, new way, and theory behind that architectural design for web application platform....
(Please correct me on the phrase above)

Actually, the faculty decided to order a J2EE book from Sun( i think the book base is in Singapore) for about 2500php or $56.00

Unfortunately, that book is expected to be arrived on midterms.... unbelievable scenario(but that was true)....

I did attempt to buy a new book instead of waiting that precious book, but i doubt for having such book....(for $40.99)....

So i decided to wait that precious book, yet learning in advance from this forum and the other web resources....

What a long story :)

Well, anyway,

Here is what i suppose to know in JSP as im building my experimental application for the supplement on my final project( Not thesis though )

I like to know about the JSP Beans,

for example, i have a java class that contains setter and getter methods,
i like to jar them, unfortunately, i didn't found the right tutorial for it on the web...

so can you post a helpful url that would teach me how to do that?
and also, about how to access the jar file from the jsp container( doubt of terms )Please correct me....

Or can you show an example?
For example, i have a jar file in WEB-INF/lib/JARZKY.jar
and the content is com\myclass.cla ss(with setSetter() and getGetter() methods)

How can you invoke that class through JSP?


A sincere Java Lover,
sukatoa

[r035198x]

First read this one.
Then get this one which is free from sun for the more serious stuff.

[sukatoa]

First read this one.
Then get this one which is free from sun for the more serious stuff.

Thanks for the URL r035198x....
Im on my way.....

[sukatoa]

Thanks for the URL r035198x....
Im on my way.....

I have created a jar named Checker.jar
saved on WEB-INF\lib\

my problem is i cannot access the Checker.jar
with content dma.Checker.cla ss

i've attempt:

<jsp:useBean id="Checker" scope="page" class="Checker" />

attempting to replace class into jar ==> invalid attribute

But i really have no idea how to fix this.....

Can you show me an example about this?
The url above does only explains how to deal with classes...( not jar )

[sukatoa]

Is this possible?

I would like to add a text file together with the classes folder inside WEB-INF
And that text-file is the source to be extracted for calculations and i will try to open that textfile from my java-bean.... possible? or not?

for example,
I have a text file that contains the list of all countries....
That is really disapointing on my part that all the countries will be coded on
bean. so i decided not to do it inside the code, instead on the database....
But for that it is just a constant data, having it on the database will add
another table and it will consume another bean that has 100 lines of code
(Approximately) . Before attempting it into database, i need your advice, and
the answer on the above questions experts....

Looking forward on your replies,
sukatoa....

[sukatoa]

Im currently doing some experiments in JSP........

and I fail to debug my code.....

Here is the stacktrace:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: For input string: ""
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:370)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
 
 
root cause 
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
    java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
    java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
    java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Unknown Source)
    org.apache.jsp.home.guests.Validator_jsp.checkAccountInformation(org.apache.jsp.home.guests.Validator_jsp:63)
    org.apache.jsp.home.guests.Validator_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.home.guests.Validator_jsp:270)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:322)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

I am curious about that inputString.... .....

Here is the JSP code.

<%@ page 
    contentType="text/html; 
    charset=iso-8859-1" 
    language="java" 
    errorPage=""
 
    import = "beans.specific.constants.ImageRefGenerator"
    import = "beans.reusable.checker.EmailChecker"
    import = "java.util.ArrayList"
    import = "java.util.GregorianCalendar"
%>
<jsp:useBean id="signupcookie" class="beans.specific.cookies.SignUpCookie" scope="session" />
 
<%!    
    ImageRefGenerator img = new ImageRefGenerator();
    String SenderLocation = "http://localhost:8080/home/guests/register.jsp";
    EmailChecker checkemail = new EmailChecker();
    ArrayList<String> reminder = new ArrayList<String>();
 
    private final boolean checkVerification(String confirm,String reference,boolean strict){
        if(confirm.length()>0){
            if(!strict)
                return confirm.equalsIgnoreCase(reference);
            else
                return confirm.equals(reference);
        }else{
            return false;
        }
    }
 
    private final boolean checkMail(String email){
        checkemail.resetValue(email);
        return checkemail.checkStoredEmail();
    }
 
    private final boolean checkAccountInformation(String username,
                                                  String password,
                                                  String verifypassword,
                                                  String emailaddress,
                                                  String verifyemailaddress,
                                                  String creditcardnumber){
        boolean confirmer = true;
        if(username.length()==0){
            reminder.add("username");
            confirmer = false;
        }
        if(password.length()<6){
            reminder.add("password");
            confirmer = false;
        }    
        if(!checkVerification(password,verifypassword,true)){
            reminder.add("verifypassword");
            confirmer = false;
        }    
        if(!checkMail(emailaddress)){
            reminder.add("email");
            confirmer = false;
        }    
        if(!checkVerification(emailaddress,verifyemailaddress,true)){
            reminder.add("verifyemail");
            confirmer = false;
        }    
        if(Integer.valueOf(creditcardnumber)<16){
            reminder.add("ccnumber");
            confirmer = false;
        }
        return confirmer;
    }
 
    private final boolean checkMemberInformation(String surname,
                                                 String firstname,
                                                 String middlename,
                                                 String homeadd,
                                                 String birthdate,
                                                 String gender,
                                                 String country,
                                                 String passport,
                                                 String placeissue){
        boolean confirmer = true;
        if(surname.length()==0){
            reminder.add("surname");
            confirmer = false;
        }
        if(firstname.length()==0){
            reminder.add("firstname");
            confirmer = false;
        }
        if(middlename.length()==0){
            reminder.add("middlename");
            confirmer = false;
        }
        if(homeadd.length()==0){
            reminder.add("homeaddress");
            confirmer = false;
        }
        if(!checkBirthDate(birthdate)){
            reminder.add("birthdate");
            confirmer = false;
        }            
        if(gender.equals("Select")){
            reminder.add("gender");
            confirmer = false;
        }
        if(country.equals("Select Country")){
            reminder.add("country");
            confirmer = false;
        }
        if(passport.length()==0){
            if(placeissue.length()>0){
                reminder.add("passportnumber");
                confirmer = false;
            }
        }else{
            if(placeissue.length()==0){
                reminder.add("placeissue");
                confirmer = false;
            }
        }
        return confirmer;                             
     }
 
     private final boolean checkContactInformation(String landline,
                                                   String mobile,
                                                   String fax,
                                                   String alteremail){
         boolean ret = true;
         if(landline.length()!=0||mobile.length()!=0||
            fax.length()!=0||alteremail.length()!=0){
             if(alteremail.length()>0){
                 if(!checkMail(alteremail)){
                     reminder.add("alteremail");
                     ret = false;
                 }
             }                 
         }else{
             reminder.add("nonecontactinfo");
             ret = false;                                              
         }
        return ret;
     }
 
     private final boolean checkBirthDate(String data){
         String month = data.split("-")[0];
         Integer day = Integer.valueOf(data.split("-")[1]);
         Integer year = Integer.valueOf(data.split("-")[2]);
         boolean ret = true;
 
         if(month.equals("February")){
             if(new GregorianCalendar().isLeapYear(year))
                 ret=day>28?false:ret;
             else
                 ret=day>29?false:ret;
         }
 
         if(month.equals("April")||month.equals("June")||month.equals("September")||
            month.equals("November"))
                ret = day==31?false:ret;
         return ret;
     }
 
    private final void VoidVerification(){
        reminder.add("remoteuser");
    }
%>
 
<%
    signupcookie.resetInstance();
 
    String username = request.getParameter("username");
    String password = request.getParameter("password");
    String checkpassword = request.getParameter("checkpassword");
    String emailaddress = request.getParameter("emailaddress");
    String checkemail = request.getParameter("checkemail");
    String creditcard = request.getParameter("creditcard");
 
    String surname = request.getParameter("surname");
    String firstname = request.getParameter("firstname");
    String middlename = request.getParameter("middlename");
 
    String month = request.getParameter("month");
    String day = request.getParameter("day");
    String year = request.getParameter("year");    
    String gender = request.getParameter("gender");
    String homeaddress = request.getParameter("homeaddress");
    String companyaddress = request.getParameter("companyaddress");
 
    String country = request.getParameter("country");
    String passportnumber = request.getParameter("passportnumber");
    String passportissue = request.getParameter("passportissue");
 
    String landline = request.getParameter("landline");
    String mobile = request.getParameter("mobile");
    String faxnumber = request.getParameter("faxnumber");
    String altermail = request.getParameter("altermail");
 
    String confirmation = request.getParameter("confirmation");
    String ref = request.getParameter("ref");
 
    signupcookie.setUsername(username);
    signupcookie.setEmailAddress(emailaddress);
 
    signupcookie.setSurname(surname);
    signupcookie.setFirstname(firstname);
    signupcookie.setMiddlename(middlename);
    signupcookie.setBirthDate(month,day,year);    
    signupcookie.setGender(gender);
    signupcookie.setHomeAddress(homeaddress);
    signupcookie.setCompanyAddress(companyaddress);
 
    signupcookie.setCountry(country);
    signupcookie.setPassportNumber(passportnumber);
    signupcookie.setPassportIssue(passportissue);
 
    signupcookie.setLandline(landline);
    signupcookie.setMobile(mobile);
    signupcookie.setFaxNumber(faxnumber);
    signupcookie.setAlterEmail(altermail);
 
    String validValue = img.getValue(ref);
 
    boolean indicator = true;
    String brtdate = month.concat("-"+day).concat("-"+year);
 
 
    if(!checkAccountInformation(username,password,checkpassword,
                               emailaddress,checkemail,creditcard)){
        indicator = false;                           
    }
    if(!checkMemberInformation(surname,firstname,middlename,homeaddress,brtdate,
                               gender,country,passportnumber,passportissue)){
        indicator = false;
    }
    if(!checkVerification(confirmation,validValue,false)){
        VoidVerification();
        indicator = false;
    }
 
    if(!indicator){
        response.sendRedirect(SenderLocation);
    }
%>
 

Im loosing hope with this problem.....

Im using DreamWeaverMX, manual set-up of Apache Tomcat........

Can you experts tell me where is it on the code?
Or can you suggest any alternatives for this?

waiting,
sukatoa

[sukatoa]

Im always late to realize........ .

ArrayList indexOf(Object o) uses the equals method that can't be used to compare null values........

Gotcha!!!!!!!

final boolean hasReminder(String exists){
        boolean ret = false;
        reminderloop:
        for(String rem:reminder){
            if(rem.equals(exists)){
                ret = true;
                break reminderloop;
            }
        }
        return ret;
    }

I wonder what implementation did lastIndexOf method used in ArrayList?
Is that only uses the reverse value arrangement then apply the indexOf method?

[JosAH]

I wonder what implementation did lastIndexOf method used in ArrayList?
Is that only uses the reverse value arrangement then apply the indexOf method?

If you wonder how those standard classes implemented things go to your jdk
directory and find the file src.zip. It's a zip file that contains all the source code
files for all the publicly available classes in your Java installation.

kind regards,

Jos

[sukatoa]

Just a quick,

I've planned to implement all the necessary validations using JSP,

Now, may i know what are the disadvantages of doing such thing?
except for the passing parameters?( takes a little bit of time ) through form.....

Unlike JS, that it runs on the browser as it validates the form just in time.......

[ajos]

Just a quick,

I've planned to implement all the necessary validations using JSP,

Now, may i know what are the disadvantages of doing such thing?
except for the passing parameters?( takes a little bit of time ) through form.....

Unlike JS, that it runs on the browser as it validates the form just in time.......

I think by validations you mean form validations? I normally do it in the client side as well as in the server side(just to be doubly sure, and thats the way it should be :)). I dont see it as a disadvantage because those are the things a web developer should do, lets say what happens when a ignorant(or any user) turns the javaScript off in the browser? I as a web developer ensure that the user doesnt skip the mandatory things that he needs to fill. I dont think that it comes down to performance, its a securuty thing for me.

regards,

ajos