A jsp that has an XML file extension, server mappings

[David Rocks]

Hi,

I am wanting to make a dynamic XML file, sitemap.xml.

I want this to change when the content held in the database changes.

I have done this in PHP but do not know whow to do this in java.

I would expect that somewhere in my server (tomcat) I can map sitemap.xml to sitemap.jsp, possibly. So when I call sitemap.xml it will infact run sitemap.jsp and return the dynamic content.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

[Bear Bibeault]

I guess, but it certainly seems like a lot of jumping through unnecessary hoops. Why not just have a servlet to serve the XML content? Much easier. Why do you feel you need a JSP?

[David Rocks]

I can do that as well I suppose.

So I would just set up the mapping sitemap.xml straight to the servlet?

I just always use JSPs and never servlets, not written one in years I think.

'He who's only tool is a hammer only sees nails' I suppose.

[Bear Bibeault]

Um yeah. You can pound in a screw with a hammer, but ...

[David Newton]

David Rocks wrote:I just always use JSPs and never servlets, not written one in years I think.

That seems backwards to me.

[David Rocks]

David Newton wrote:

David Rocks wrote:I just always use JSPs and never servlets, not written one in years I think.

That seems backwards to me.

Why, I could be a swing developer for all you know.

[David Newton]

You use JSPs in Swing?

[David Rocks]

David Newton wrote:You use JSPs in Swing?

I would not have a problem in putting the logic into a JSP and mapping the xml file to the jsp.

I wrote the servlet on the train home and I thought about the xml file as a jsp or a servlet.

If I was to do a sitemap.jsp with a sitemap.xml the it would be natural to place the same logic of a sitemap.jsp into a sitemap.xml.

There is no specific architectural reason why the logic has to go into a servlet.

[Paul Clapham]

David Newton wrote:

David Rocks wrote:I just always use JSPs and never servlets, not written one in years I think.

That seems backwards to me.

But pretty normal around here. Just watch and you'll see all the posts which say "Don't do that in your JSP, only do what is necessary to output the view". That's a large fraction of the threads about JSP. I don't understand why people only use JSPs either, it doesn't seem very professional to me, but then not everything has to be professionally done.