Mike Gerd

Same here. the on line docs aren't good at all.

The first answer's answer.

Thanks both

Hi,
Im a newbie to J2EE. I was experimenting with doGet and doPost. and to my surprise I discovered that doPost was delegating? to doGet. I tried searching on the net for this but didnt find any such thing. so what going on here?

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException {
doPost(req, res);
PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
out.println("This is doGet");


This prints "This is doGet" on to the webpage. But the strange thing is that Im calling doPost first!! The doPost is empty!. Is the doPost turning around and calling doGet?
[ July 14, 2007: Message edited by: Mikey Gerard ]

I have a simple JSP in which I try to call a servlet using the servlet's URL pattern but I get an HTTP 404 error. Im wondering are we allowed to call a servlet using its url pattern with a form action element in a JSP??

Below is the JSP code that calls the servlet.

<FORM name="form" action="/control" method="GET">

And, Below is the web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee <a href="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"></a> <servlet> <display-name>NA</display-name> <servlet-name>ControllerServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>ControllerServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>jdbcDriver</param-name> <param-value>sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>dbUrl</param-name> <param-value>jdbc:odbc:JdbcOdbcDriver</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>dbUserName</param-name> <param-value>sa</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>dbPassword</param-name> <param-value>.</param-value> </init-param> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>ControllerServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/control</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>
Any suggestions?

Hey thanks for the info. I will be checking it out. Thanks again.

Hi Jeanne,
I'm not too familiar with the versions of websphere but anything thats compliant with j2ee 1.4 and beyond. I'm guessing that v5.x and beyond? I narrowed down a few books among them was
1.)WebSphere Application Server: Step by Step by Rama Turaga(this appears to be for admins?) or
2.)IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration by Roland Barcia.

Which do you recommend? are there any others I should consider.

Im looking a short relatively new book on websphere written with the developer and not the admin in mind. Any Suggestions?