How do I create a HelloWorld Servlet?

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Servlet is a Java solution for creating a dynamic web application, it can be compared with the old CGI technology. Using Servlet we can create a web application that can display information from database, receive information from a web form to be stored on the application database.

This example show the very basic of servlet, it returns a hello world html document for the browser. At the very minimum a servlet will have a doPost() and doGet() method which handles the HTTP POST and GET request.

package org.kodejava.example.servlet;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class HelloWorld extends javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet implements javax.servlet.Servlet {
  
	public HelloWorld() {
		super();
	}   	
	
	protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
		doPost(request, response);
	}  	
	
	protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
		response.setContentType("text/html");
		
		PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
		writer.println("<html>");
		writer.println("<head><title>Hello World Servlet</title></head>");
		writer.println("<body>Hello World! How are you doing?</body>");
		writer.println("</html>");
		writer.close();
	}   	  	    
}

For a servlet to works on a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat we need to add or register the servlet in the application's web.xml file. This configuration tells the container about our servlet class and a url that maps a request to the servlet.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
	<display-name>kodejava-example</display-name>
	<servlet>
		<description></description>
		<display-name>HelloWorld</display-name>
		<servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
                <servlet-class>
                        org.kodejava.example.servlet.HelloWorld
                </servlet-class>
	</servlet>
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/HelloWorld</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

 

When the servlet is deployed to the container we can access it from a url in a form of http://localhost:8080/app-name/HelloWorld

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