How to get the context path in a Spring Web application
In this tutorial, we discuss 2 ways for retrieving the context path in a Spring Web application. 1- HttpServletRequest The typical way of getting the context path is through the...
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How to upload files to a servlet
In this tutorial, we discuss how to upload files to a servlet. Parsing the uploaded file in the servlet depends strictly on the used version of the servlet API, here...
How to serve static resources in a web application
In any web application, there exists a folder named WebContent that automatically holds .class and jar files. When running a web application in eclipse or when deploying a war file to an...
Download file from a Web Application using Servlet
This tutorial shows how to download a file from a web application using Servlet. A typical task in most web applications is to download files stored at the server side to...
How to exclude a URL from a Servlet Filter
By default, servlet filters don’t support excluding a specific URL pattern, whenever you define a URL pattern for a filter then any request matching this pattern is processed by the...
forward() vs sendRedirect() vs include()
It is a common practice that a controller redirects to another resource after processing a request, the resource could be either a view which displays the result of processing or...
How to send data from Java Servlet to JSP
JSP is mostly used as the view component in any Java-based MVC application, its main usage is to present dynamic data processed and generated from server-side controllers like a servlet....
How to send data from Javascript to Servlet
In modern web applications, the data exchange between front-end and back-end is usually done dynamically through javascript. In this tutorial, we explain 2 ways of exchanging data between javascript and...
Pass data from html to servlet
In this tutorial we explain the common way of passing data from html to java servlets, we mostly focus on passing form data entered by end-users through pages like: login, sign-up,...
JSP – Hello World Tutorial
In this tutorial, we provide a step-by-step guide for creating a hello world web application using JSP technology. Prerequisites: Eclipse IDE (Mars release) Java 1.7 Apache tomcat 7 1. Create...
Servlet 3.0 – Hello World Tutorial
In this tutorial, we provide a step-by-step guide for creating a hello world web application using Servlet 3.0 technology. Servlet 3.0 supports defining and exposing servlets using annotations, if you...
Servlet 2.5 – Hello World Tutorial
In this tutorial, we provide a step-by-step guide for creating a hello world web application using Servlet 2.x technology. Prerequisites: Eclipse IDE (Mars release) Java 1.7 Apache tomcat 7 1....
