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Chapter 5: Controlling Web Application Behavior with web.xml

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  • app-blank.zip. Blank Web app to use as the starting point for your Web applications. Uses servlet 2.4 (JSP 2.0) version of web.xml.
  • TestServlet.java. Simple servlet used to illustrate servlet naming and custom URLs. Part of the deployDemo Web application.
  • web.xml. Deployment descriptor for the deployDemo application. See the first servlet element.
  • TestPage.jsp. Simple JSP page that just prints out the local part of the URL used to invoke it. Placed in the top level of the deployDemo directory. Also see the associated servlet and servlet-mapping entries in web.xml.
  • SorryServlet.java. Simple servlet used to give error messages to users who try to access default servlet URLs (i.e., http://host/webAppPrefix/servlet/ServletName) in Web applications that have disabled this behavior.
  • InitServlet.java. Simple servlet used to illustrate servlet initialization parameters. See the associated servlet element in web.xml, especially the init-param subelement.
  • InitPage.jsp. A JSP page that contains a jspInit method and is placed at the top level of the deployDemo Web page hierarchy. Normally, a URL of http://localhost/deployDemo/InitPage.jsp would invoke a version of the page that has no access to initialization parameters and would thus show null for the firstName and emailAddress variables. However, the web.xml file assigns a registered name and then associates that registered name with the URL pattern /InitPage.jsp.
  • ReportFilter.java. Simple filter that prints a report on the standard output whenever the associated servlet or JSP page is accessed. See the filter element of web.xml.
  • NotFound.jsp. A JSP page that could be returned to clients that provide unknown filenames. See the error-page and error-code elements of web.xml.
  • DumbDeveloperException.java. Exception used to flag particularly onerous programmer blunders. Used to illustrate the exception-type web.xml element. The class also contains a static method called dangerousComputation that sometimes generates this type of exception.
  • RiskyPage.jsp. A JSP page that calls dangerousComputation on random integer values. See the error-page and exception-type elements of web.xml.
  • DDE.jsp. JSP page that is displayed whenever a DumbDeveloperException is thrown in the top level of a JSP page.
  • ContextReporter.java. Simple listener that prints a report on the standard output when the ServletContext is created or destroyed. See the listener element of web.xml.
  • deployDemo.war. The entire deployDemo application in a single Web ARchive (WAR) file.

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