Review: Integrating Servlets 

and JSP

Use MVC (Model 2) approach when:

One submission will result in multiple basic looks 

Several pages have substantial common processing

Architecture

A servlet answers the original request

Servlet does the real processing & stores results in beans

Beans stored in HttpServletRequest, HttpSession, or

ServletContext

Servlet forwards to JSP page via forward method of

RequestDispatcher

JSP page reads data from beans by means of jsp:useBean

with appropriate scope (request, session, or application)

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More Information

Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages

http://www.coreservlets.com

More detail on all topics presented here

More Servlets and 

JavaServer Pages

http://www.moreservlets.com

New features in servlets 2.3 and JSP 1.2 (filters and 

listeners), Web applications, security, standard JSP tag 

library

Servlet home page

http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/

JavaServer Pages home page

http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/

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