Contents


About This Book

Chapter 1 Servlets and JavaServer Pages

Web Applications
Servlets
JavaServer Pages

Chapter 2 Web Applications

Web Application Structure
Dynamic Reconfiguration
web.xml Clarifications

login-config
security-constraint
session-timeout

The web-apps.xml File and Virtual Servers

The Default Context for a Virtual Server
Example server.xml File
Example web-apps.xml File
web-apps.xml Element Reference
auth-native
class-loader
description
filter, filter-mapping
form-login-session
init-param
jsp-servlet
param-name
param-value
parameter-encoding
response-buffer
response-cookie
role-mapping
session-cookie
session-manager
session-tracking
tempdir
vs
web-app

Deploying a Web Application using wdeploy
Web Application Examples

Chapter 3 Using Servlets

What Does the Server Need to Run Servlets?
Using the User Interface
Enabling Servlets
Making Servlets Available to Clients
The <SERVLET> SHTML Tag
Servlet Output
Configuring JVM
Maximizing Servlet Performance

Chapter 4 Using JavaServer Pages

What Does the Server Need to Run JSP?
Configuring JRE/JDK Paths
Using the User Interface
Enabling JSPs
Making JSPs Available to Clients
Deleting Cache Version Files
The JSP Command-Line Compiler

Package Names Generated by the JSP Compiler
Specifying that JSPs Are Precompiled
Other JSP Initialization Parameters

JSP Tag Libraries and Standard Portable Tags

Chapter 5 Debugging Servlets and JSPs

Servlet Debugging
JSP Debugging
Generating a Stack Trace for Debugging
Using Forte for Java to Debug Servlets and JSPs
JPDA Options for Debugging

Chapter 6 Session Managers

Session Overview
Specifying a Session Manager
IWSSessionManager

Parameters for IWSSessionManager
Enabling IWSSessionManager
Source Code for IWSSessionManager

MMapSessionManager (Unix Only)

Parameters
Enabling MMapSessionManager
Deleting SessionData Version Files

Deprecated Session Managers

SimpleSessionManager
JdbcSessionManager

Load Balancing, Session Failover, and Session IDs

Chapter 7 API Clarifications

Clarification of HttpSession Scope
Clarifications for Using Methods

HttpServlet.service
ServletContext.getAttribute
ServletRequest.setAttribute
ServletRequest.getParameter
ServletResponse.getOutputStream and getWriter
RequestDispatcher.forward and include

Other Useful Information

Database Connection Pooling
Fetching the Client Certificate

Chapter 8 Legacy Servlet and JSP Configuration

The Default Virtual Server
Enabling Servlets and JSP
Making JSPs Available to Clients
Configuring Servlets in the Default Virtual Server

Configuring Global Servlet Attributes
Registering Servlet Directories
Registering Individual Servlets
Specifying Servlet Virtual Paths
Specifying Servlet Contexts

Using the User Interface
Legacy Configuration Files

servlets.properties
rules.properties
contexts.properties

Legacy Examples
Maximizing Legacy Servlet Performance

Appendix A Servlet Settings in magnus.conf and obj.conf

Init Directives in magnus.conf
Objects in obj.conf
Directives for Registered Servlet Directories
JSP Directives

Appendix B Converting SSJS Applications

Differences Between JavaScript and Java
JavaScript to Java Class Conversions
Conversion Steps
Example Conversion

Appendix C JVM Configuration

The jvm12.conf File
Using JVM Environment Variables
jvm12.conf Parameter Reference

Appendix D Remote Servlet Profiling

The Optimizeit! Profiler
The HPROF Profiler

Index