Output from a server to a html page

[Allypodyman]

Hi ,
I am new to programming in Java, my first assignment is to Post a information from HTML page , call a servlet and then after some processing save the output in a html page (not spew out to a browser). I mean to say that I will have to write my output to a file that can be viewed from a browser as a HTML page. Could anyonew help me in this.
Thanks and Regards

[William Brogden]

What servlet engine are you supposed to be using? If you have it installed, what examples/demos do you have available to study?
Bill

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[Allypodyman]

I am using Jakarta-Tomcat, I dont know the version no.... I will try to look for the examples.... but the actual dillema for me is to write the HTML code on the file and put some images in.
Thanks

[Thomas Paul]

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
public class ServletTest extends HttpServlet {
    public void service(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
    
        try {
            File file = new File("...the htdocs directory...", "output.html");
            FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(file);
            PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(FileWriter);
            printWriter.println("..... all my HTML stuff...");
            printWriter.close();
            fileWriter.close();
        } catch(IOException e){
            out.println("Error writing file: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

[Allypodyman]

Hi if the line
File f = new File("/examples/servlets/index2.html")
looks like that , then where does the output go
Thanks

[Frank Carver]

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Thanks.

[Thomas Paul]

It would go to the directory /examples/servlets/ off the root. The file specified has nothing to do with the web server software so it isn't based off the location of the htdocs, for example.