In the src/main/java folder, create the app package, where we will put our source code. Something like ' Add new user' and ' User list', and we'll leave it like that.Ĭreate two servletsServlets will receive and process the requests that Tomcat sends them.

list.jsp - page to display the list of users.Īssign appropriate page headers to them.

In this folder, we'll create two JSP files: I called it ' views', but once again you can improvise. :)Ĭreate JSP files to render the resultIn the same web directory, create a folder where we'll add our JSP files. We'll fill them with styles later, and everything will look more beautiful. And don't worry about that fact that my examples will have a lot of divs. :) Obviously, you could get by with simple links, but I prefer buttons. But we'll assume that no one disables JavaScript. Note that this isn't the most universal approach: if JavaScript is turned off in the browser, then these buttons won't work. If you click on the buttons, you get 404-error pages, because we the corresponding pages don't exist yet. You can run the project and see how it looks now. And there we have two buttons that take you to the corresponding address with a click. The content div includes a holder for our buttons. In the page body, we have two main divs: header and content. In the title tag, we indicate the title of our page. Instead, create a simple HTML file called index.html in this folder: We'll store the data in a plain vanilla list (List).Ĭreate a static home pageIf you index.jsp in your web folder, delete it. The servlets will then process the requests, prepare data (or save data, if we're adding a user), and transfer control to the appropriate JSP files, which then 'render' the result. Tomcat will catch requests for these addresses and send them to one of the two servlets that we're going to make (we'll specify the mapping in web.xml).

view the list of users (navigates to / list).

It will only take a few minutes :)Ī little about our future application's structureOur home page (/) will be a most ordinary static HTML page with a header and two links/buttons: If not, run through the first article and make one. We'll assume that you already have an empty project that we'll now add to. In the end, we'll 'beautify' our application using the W3.CSS framework.

Our application will have a home page with two links:Īs before, I will use IntelliJ Idea Enterprise Edition, Apache Maven (we'll just connect some dependencies), and Apache Tomcat. This time I'll show you how to create a simple but totally attractive web application using the Java Servlet API and the JavaServer Pages API. In that article, I demonstrated how to create a working web project template.

This material is the logical continuation of my article Creating the simplest web project in IntelliJ Idea Enterprise.

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