Re: embed .jar files

From:
 bencoe@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:43:27 -0700
Message-ID:
<1182548607.213679.57680@o11g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 22, 4:41 pm, Pasquale <spdr...@NOTHNXtelusplanet.net> wrote:

I have never embedded java files into html pages, and I'm attempting
this for the first time.

I have been given .jar and .jad files to embed. I've been searching and
all I have found that seems to apply to my situation is that the archive
attribute is what I should use for the .jar file? What about the code
and codebase attributes? I don't have any .class files. Should I have
been provided with one or more of those? Do I use the .jad files instead
of .class?

My host's instructions are basic:

1. Upload your Java servlets (classes) into your /WEB-INF/classes/ folder.

2. The path to your servlets is:http://yourdomain/servlet/servletname

If I can see an example of tags and attributes for my situation, it
would much appreciated!

Thanks,
Pasquale


It sounds to me that what you're trying to do is get a servlet up and
going. If you're hoping to use third party libraries the /WEB-INF/
classes/ folder represents the root directory of your servlet
application... you can place whatever libraries you want to use here
which can be accessed via your servlets. The servlet itself is sort of
like a PHP file, in that it takes care of rendering a web-page on the
fly for a client connecting to it... here's an example of.

import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class login extends HttpServlet {
    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse
response)

        throws IOException, ServletException

    {
            String user=request.getParameter("user");// Get info from
forms.

        //Perhaps someone is logged in already...Check Cookies.

        if(user==null||pass==null){

            Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
            Cookie temp;

            if(cookies!=null)
            for(int i=0;i<cookies.length;i++){
                temp=cookies[i];

                if(temp.getName().equals("user"))

                    user=temp.getValue();

                if(temp.getName().equals("pass"))

                    pass=temp.getValue();

            }
        }

        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
                response.setContentType("text/html");
        out.println(wrap.runTemplate(""));
        out.close();
    }

    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse
response)

        throws IOException, ServletException

    {
        doGet(request, response);
    }

}

This is a simple servlet that shows most of the basic functions you'd
probably want to be using, with a bit of code omitted, once you get
something like this up and running, you can put the other libraries
you want to use in the /WEB-INF/classes folder, and access them like
you would in any java application... keeping in mind you use the
response as the output stream.

Ben.

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