How to return an object instance by JSP

[chen Jyun]

Currently I am writing a JSP for create the program of XML Document,

create the program is successful, but how to return this object instance?

ex: Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();

how to return this doc by jsp??

Thanks
chen

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Document is a Java object. It doesn't make sense to return a Java object in a browser. Instead you would return the XML character data to the user for display. (Also, this is better done in a servlet than a JSP. JSP is about presentation.)

[chen Jyun]

Thanks for you answer,

Oh sorry ,I am not return a Java object in a browser.

I want to return this object "Document" for client to prase,

and that result displayed on the eclipse console,

so how should I do ?(return document object for client)

Thanks!

[Miku Ranjan]

Hi,
I have not done for xml
But if you want a json object you can use json tag library in jsp to create a json object.
Which will get by the request from the browser.

[Stefan Evans]

To return this document in a servlet:

Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");

//initialize StreamResult with ServletOutputStream
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(response.getOutputStream());
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
transformer.transform(source, result);

Thats the basic pattern to write the document out.
In this case is uses the servlet output stream to provide the xml response to the client.