How can I import a servlet inside a JSP?

Question

Hi! I have seen tons of instructions on importing beans inside a JSP page but I want to use servlets instead. This question might be stupid, but I'm not really adept with JSPs yet and I hope you can help me.
I need to import classes inside my JSP page so that I can use the methods and manipulate them through the JSP.
Thank you!
lauramos

Answer 1

I'm curious, have you looked into using the MVC or Struts framework? One idea would be to map the Servlet you created to a JSP via XML (or any other mapping you want #?.jhtml for all that matters) and jsp:include as needed. Just a few mappings needed in WEB-INF/web.xml for instance...
<servlet>
��<servlet-name>HeaderPageHandler</servlet-name>
��<servlet-class>packagename.HeaderPageHandler</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
��<servlet-name>HeaderPageHandler</servlet-name>
��<url-pattern>/header_page.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
In the JSP:
<jsp:include page = "header_page.jsp" flush = "true" />
The Servlet could forward the information over to another page using the getRequestDispatcher(String url).include(req, resp); From there, use the application or request scope to handle the jsp:useBean to output what you need. You could take that further and customize some of your own TLDs so you could state simple tags like <tag:output class="text">some text here</tag:output>