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Java 9 Programming By Example

You're reading from   Java 9 Programming By Example Your guide to software development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468284
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Verhas Peter Verhas
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Java 9 2. The First Real Java Program - Sorting Names FREE CHAPTER 3. Optimizing the Sort - Making Code Professional 4. Mastermind - Creating a Game 5. Extending the Game - Run Parallel, Run Faster 6. Making Our Game Professional - Do it as a Webapp 7. Building a Commercial Web Application Using REST 8. Extending Our E-Commerce Application 9. Building an Accounting Application Using Reactive Programming 10. Finalizing Java Knowledge to a Professional Level

Java Server Pages


I promised you that I would not bore you with Java Server Pages because that is a technology of the past. Even though it is the past, it is still not history as there are many programs running that still use JSP and contain JSP code.

JSP pages are web pages that contain HTML and Java code mixed. When an HTTP request is served by a JSP page, the servlet container reads the JSP page, executes the Java parts, takes the HTML parts as they are, and in this way, mixing the two together, creates an HTML page that is sent to the browser.

<%@ page language="java" 
         contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" 
         pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> 
<html> 
<body> 
<% for( int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i ++ ){ %> 
  hallo<br/> 
<% } %> 
</body> 
</html>

The preceding page will create an HTML page that contains the text hallo five times, each in a new line separated by the tag br. Behind the scenes, the servlet container converts the JSP page to a...

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