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22.3.14.2. A Simple Servlet with Glassfish, Connector/J and MySQL

This section describes a simple servlet that can be used in the Glassfish environment to access a MySQL database. As with the previous section, this example assumes the sample database world is installed.

The project is set up with the following directory structure:

index.htmlWEB-INF   |   - web.xml   - sun-web.xml   - classes        |        - HelloWebServlet.java        - HelloWebServlet.class

The code for the servlet, located in HelloWebServlet.java, is as follows:

import javax.servlet.http.*;import javax.servlet.*;import java.io.*;import java.sql.*;import javax.sql.*;import javax.naming.*;public class HelloWebServlet extends HttpServlet {  InitialContext ctx = null;  DataSource ds = null;  Connection conn = null;  PreparedStatement ps = null;  ResultSet rs = null;  String sql = "SELECT Name, Population FROM Country WHERE Name=?";  public void init () throws ServletException {    try {      ctx = new InitialContext();      ds = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/MySQLDataSource");      conn = ds.getConnection();      ps = conn.prepareStatement(sql);    }    catch (SQLException se) {      System.out.println("SQLException: "+se.getMessage());    }    catch (NamingException ne) {      System.out.println("NamingException: "+ne.getMessage());      }    }  public void destroy () {    try {      if (rs != null)        rs.close();      if (ps != null)        ps.close();      if (conn != null)        conn.close();      if (ctx != null)        ctx.close();     }         catch (SQLException se) {      System.out.println("SQLException: "+se.getMessage());    }    catch (NamingException ne) {      System.out.println("NamingException: "+ne.getMessage());      }    }  public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp){    try {      String country_name = req.getParameter("country_name");          resp.setContentType("text/html");      PrintWriter writer = resp.getWriter();      writer.println("<html><body>");      writer.println("<p>Country: "+country_name+"</p>");      ps.setString(1, country_name);      rs = ps.executeQuery();      if (!rs.next()){        writer.println("<p>Country does not exist!</p>");      }      else {        rs.beforeFirst();        while(rs.next()) {          writer.println("<p>Name: "+rs.getString("Name")+"</p>");          writer.println("<p>Population: "+rs.getString("Population")+"</p>");        }      }      writer.println("</body></html>");      writer.close();     }    catch (Exception e) {      e.printStackTrace();    }    }  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp){    try {          resp.setContentType("text/html");      PrintWriter writer = resp.getWriter();      writer.println("<html><body>");      writer.println("<p>Hello from servlet doGet()</p>");      writer.println("</body></html>");      writer.close();     }    catch (Exception e) {      e.printStackTrace();    }    }}

In the preceding code a basic doGet() method is implemented, but is not used in the example. The code to establish the connection with the database is as shown in the previous example, Section 22.3.14.1, "A Simple JSP Application with Glassfish, Connector/J and MySQL", and is most conveniently located in the servlet init() method. The corresponding freeing of resources is located in the destroy method. The main functionality of the servlet is located in the doPost() method. If the user enters nto the input form a country name that can be located in the database, the population of the country is returned. The code is invoked using a POST action associated with the input form. The form is defined in the file index.html:

<html>  <head><title>HelloWebServlet</title></head>    <body>    <h1>HelloWebServlet</h1>        <p>Please enter country name:</p>        <form action="HelloWebServlet" method="POST">      <input type="text" name="country_name" length="50" />      <input type="submit" value="Submit" />    </form>      </body></html>

The XML files web.xml and sun-web.xml are as for the example in the preceding section, Section 22.3.14.1, "A Simple JSP Application with Glassfish, Connector/J and MySQL", no additional changes are required.

Whe compiling the Java source code, you will need to specify the path to the file javaee.jar. On Windows, this can be done as follows:

shell> javac -classpath c:\glassfishv3\glassfish\lib\javaee.jar HelloWebServlet.java 

Once the code is correctly located within its directory structure, and compiled, the application can be deployed in Glassfish. This is done in exactly the same way as described in the preceding section, Section 22.3.14.1, "A Simple JSP Application with Glassfish, Connector/J and MySQL".

Once deployed the application can be launched from within the Glassfish Administration Console. Enter a country name such as "England", and the application will return "Country does not exist!". Enter "France", and the application will return a population of 59225700.