JAVA

+ Abstraction: Showing the essential and hiding the non-

Essential is known as Abstraction.
+ Encapsulation: The Wrapping up of data and functions into a
single unit is known as Encapsulation.
Encapsulation is the term given to the process of hiding the
implementation details of the object. Once an object is
encapsulated, its implementation details are not immediately
accessible any more. Instead they are packaged and are only
indirectly accessed via the reference of the object.
+ Inheritance: is the Process by which the Obj of one class
acquires the properties of Objs another Class.
A reference variable of a Super Class can be assign to any
Sub class derived from the Super class.
Inheritance is the method of creating the new class based on
already existing class, the new class derived is called Sub class
which has all the features of existing class and its own, i.e sub
class.
Adv: Reusability of code , accessibility of variables and
methods of the Base class by the Derived class.
+ Polymorphism: The ability to take more that one form, it
supports Method Overloading & Method Overriding.
Method overloading: When a method in a class
having the same method name with different arguments
(diff Parameters or Signatures) is said to be Method
Overloading. This is Compile time Polymorphism.
Using one identifier to refer to multiple items in the same
scope.
Method Overriding: When a method in a Class
having same method name with same arguments is said to
be Method overriding. This is Run time Polymorphism.
Providing a different implementation of a method in a
subclass of the class that originally defined the method.
1. In Over loading there is a relationship between the
methods available in the same class, where as in Over
riding there is relationship between the Super class
method and Sub class method.
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2. Overloading does not block the Inheritance from the
Super class , Where as in Overriding blocks Inheritance
from the Super Class.
3. In Overloading separate methods share the same name,
where as in Overriding Sub class method replaces the
Super Class.
4. Overloading must have different method Signatures ,
Signatures.
+ Dynamic dispatch: is a mechanism by which a
call to Overridden function is resolved at runtime rather than
at Compile time , and this is how Java implements Run time
Polymorphism.
+ Dynamic Binding: Means the code associated with the
given procedure call is not known until the time of call the call
at run time. (it is associated with Inheritance &
Polymorphism).
+ Bite code: Is a optimized set of instructions designed to be
executed by Java-run time system, which is called the Java
Virtual machine (JVM), i.e. in its standard form, the JVM is an
Interpreter for byte code.
JIT- is a compiler for Byte code, The JIT-Complier is part of
the JVM, it complies byte code into executable code in real
time, piece-by-piece on demand basis.
Final classes: String, Integer , Color, Math
Abstract class: Generic servlet, Number class
variable: An item of data named by an identifier. Each
variable has a type,such as int or Object, and a scope
class variable: A data item associated with a
particular class as a whole--not with particular instances of
the class. Class variables are defined in class definitions.
Also called a static field. See also instance variable.
instance variable: Any item of data that is associated
with a particular object. Each instance of a class has its own
copy of the instance variables defined in the class. Also
called a field. See also class variable.
local variable: A data item known within a block, but
inaccessible to code outside the block. For example, any
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variable defined within a method is a local variable and can't
be used outside the method.
class method: A method that is invoked without
reference to a particular object. Class methods affect the
class as a whole, not a particular instance of the class. Also
called a static method. also instance method.
instance method: Any method that is invoked with
respect to an instance of a class. Also called simply a
method. See also class method.
+ Interface: Interfaces can be used to implement the
Inheritance relationship between the non-related classes that
do not belongs to the same hierarchy, i.e. any Class and any
where in hierarchy. Using Interface, you can specify what a
class must do but not how it does.
A class can implement more than one Interface.
An Interface can extend one or more interfaces, by
using the keyword extends.
All the data members in the interface are public, static
and Final by default.
An Interface method can have only Public, default and
Abstract modifiers.
An Interface is loaded in memory only when it is
needed for the first time.
A Class, which implements an Interface, needs to
provide the implementation of all the methods in that
Interface.
If the Implementation for all the methods declared in
the Interface are not provided, the class itself has to declare
abstract, other wise the Class will not compile.
If a class Implements two interface and both the Intfs
have identical method declaration, it is totally valid.
If a class implements tow interfaces both have identical
method name and argument list, but different return types,
the code will not compile.
An Interface cant be instantiated. Intf Are designed to
support dynamic method resolution at run time.
An interface can not be native, static, synchronize,
final, protected or private.
The Interface fields cant be Private or Protected.
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A Transient variables and Volatile variables can not be
members of Interface.
The extends keyword should not used after the
Implements keyword, the Extends must always come before
the Implements keyword.
A top level Interface can not be declared as static or
final.
If an Interface species an exception list for a method,
then the class implementing the interface need not declare
the method with the exception list.
If an Interface cant specify an exception list for a
method, the class cant throw an exception.
If an Interface does not specify the exception list for a
method, the class can not throw any exception list.
The general form of Interface is
Access interface name {
return-type method-name1(parameter-list);
type final-varname1=value;
}
Marker Interfaces: Serializable, Clonable, Remote,
EventListener,
Java.lang is the Package of all classes and is automatically
imported into all Java Program
Interfaces: Clonable , Comparable, Runnable
+ Abstract Class: Abstract classes can be used to implement
the inheritance relationship between the classes that belongs
same hierarchy.
Classes and methods can be declared as abstract.
Abstract class can extend only one Class.
If a Class is declared as abstract , no instance of that
class can be created.
If a method is declared as abstract, the sub class gives
the implementation of that class.
Even if a single method is declared as abstract in a
Class , the class itself can be declared as abstract.
Abstract class have at least one abstract method and
others may be concrete.
In abstract Class the keyword abstract must be used
for method.
Abstract classes have sub classes.
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Combination of modifiers Final and Abstract is illegal in
java.
Abstract Class means: Which has more than
one abstract method which doesnt have method body but
at least one of its methods need to be implemented in
derived Class.
The general form of abstract class is:
abstract type name (parameter list);
The Number class in the java.lang package represents the
abstract concept of numbers. It makes sense to model
numbers in a program, but it doesn't make sense to create a
generic number object.
+ Difference Between Interfaces And Abstract class?
o All the methods declared in the Interface are Abstract,
where as abstract class must have atleast one abstract
method and others may be concrete.
o In abstra ct class keyword abstract must be used for
method, where as in Interface we need not use the keyword
for methods.
o Abstract class must have Sub class, where as
Interface cant have sub classes.
o An abstract class can extend only one class, where as
an Interface can extend more than one.
+ What are access specifiers and access modifiers ?
Accesss specifiers Access modifiers
Public Public
Protected Abstract
Private Final
Static
Volatile Constant
Transient
Native
Public: The Variables and methods can be access
any where and any package.
Protected: The Variables and methods can be
access same Class, same Package & sub class.
Private: The variable and methods can be access
in same class only.
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Same class - Public, Protected, and
Private
Same-package & subclass - Public, Protected
Same Package & non-sub classes - Public,
Protected
Different package & Sub classes - Public, Protected
Different package & non- sub classes - Public
Identifiers: are the Variables that are declared under
particular Datatype.
Literals: are the values assigned to the Identifiers.
+ Static: access modifier.
+ Syntax: Variable: Static int b;
+ Method: static void meth(int x)
When a member is declared as Static, it can be
accessed before any objects of its class are created and
without reference to any object. Eg : main(),it must call
before any object exit.
Static can be applied to Inner classes, Variables and
Methods.
Local variables cant be declared as static.
A static method can access only static Variables. and
they cant refer to this or super in any way.
Static methods cant be abstract.
A static method may be called without creating any
instance of the class.
Only one instance of static variable will exit any
amount of class instances.
+ Final: access modifier
All the Variables, methods and classes can be declared
as Final.
Classes declared as final class cant be sub classed.
Method s declared as final cant be over ridden.
If a Variable is declared as final, the value contained in
the Variable cant be changed.
Static final variable must be assigned in to a value in
static initialized block.
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+ Transient: access modifier
Transient can be applied only to class level variables.
Local variables cant be declared as transient.
During serialization, Objects transient variables are
not serialized.
Transient variables may not be final or static. But the
complier allows the declaration and no compile time error is
generated.
+ Volatile: access modifier
Volatile applies to only variables.
Volatile can applied to static variables.
Volatile can not be applied to final variables.
Transient and volatile can not come together.
Volatile is used in multi-processor environments.
+ Native: access modifier
Native applies to only to methods.
Native can be applied to static methods also.
Native methods can not be abstract.
Native methods can throw exceptions.
Native method is like an abstract method. The
implementation of the abstract class and native method
exist some where else, other than the class in which the
method is declared.
+ Synchronized: access modifier
Synchronized keyword can be applied to methods or
parts of the methods only.
Synchronize keyword is used to control the access to
critical code in multi-threaded programming.
Declaration of access specifier and access modifiers:
Class - Public, Abstract, Final
Inner Class - Public, Protected, Private, Final, Static,
Anonymous - Public, Protected, Private, Static
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Variable - Public, Protected, Private, Final,
Static, Transient,
Volatile
Method - Public, Protected, Private, Final,
Abstract, Static, Native,
Synchronized
Constructor - Public, Protected, Private

Free-floating code block - Static, Synchronized
+ Package: A Package is a collection of Classes Interfaces that
provides a high-level layer of access protection and name
space management.
+ finalize() method:
All the objects have finalize() method, this method is
inherited from the Object class.
Finalize() is used to release the system resources other
than memory(such as file handles& network connecs.
Finalize() is used just before an object is destroyed and
can be called prior to garbage collection.
Finalize() is called only once for an Object. If any
exception is thrown in the finalize() the object is still eligible
for garbage collection.
Finalize() can be called explicitly. And can be
overloaded, but only original method will be called by Ga-
collect.
Finalize() may only be invoked once by the Garbage
Collector when the Object is unreachable.
The signature finalize(): protected void finalize()
throws Throwable {}
+ Constructor():
A constructor method is special kind of method that
determines how an object is initialized when created.
Constructor has the same name as class name.
Constructor does not have return type.
Constructor cannot be over ridden and can be over
loaded.
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Default constructor is automatically generated by
compiler if class does not have once.
If explicit constructor is there in the class the default
constructor is not generated.
If a sub class has a default constructor and super class
has explicit constructor the code will not compile.
+ Object: Object is a Super class for all the classes. The
methods in Object class as follows.
Object clone() final void notify() Int
hashCode()
Boolean equals() final void notify()
Void finalize() String toString()
Final Class getClass() final void wait()
+ Class: The Class class is used to represent the classes and
interfaces that are loaded by the JAVA Program.
+ Character: A class whose instances can hold a single
character value. This class also defines handy methods that
can manipulate or inspect single-character data.
constructors and methods provided by the Character class:
Character(char): The Character class's only constructor,
which creates a Character object containing the value
provided by the argument. Once a Character object has
been created, the value it contains cannot be changed.
compareTo(Character): An instance method that
compares the values held by two character objects.
equals(Object): An instance method that compares the
value held by the current object with the value held by
another.
toString(): An instance method that converts the object
to a string.
charValue(): An instance method that returns the value
held by the character object as a primitive char value.
isUpperCase(char): A class method that determines
whether a primitive char value is uppercase.
+ String: String is Immutable and String Is a final class. The
String class provides for strings whose value will not change.
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One accessor method that you can use with both strings and
string buffers is the length() method, which returns the
number of characters contained in the string or the string
buffer.
The methods in String Class:-
toString() equals() indexOff()
LowerCase()
charAt() compareTo() lastIndexOff()
UpperCase()
getChars() subString() trim()
getBytes() concat() valueOf()
toCharArray() replace()
ValueOf(): converts data from its internal formate into human
readable formate.
+ String Buffer: Is Mutable, The StringBuffer class provides for
strings that will be modified; you use string buffers when you
know that the value of the character data will change.
In addition to length, the StringBuffer class has a method called
capacity, which returns the amount of space allocated for the
string buffer rather than the amount of space used.
The methods in StringBuffer Class:-
length() append() replace() charAt() and
setCharAt()
capacity() insert() substring()
getChars()
ensureCapacity() reverse()
setLength() delete()
+ Wraper Classes: are the classes that allow primitive types to
be accessed as Objects.
These classes are similar to primitive data types but starting
with capital letter.
Number Byte Boolean
Double Short Character
Float Integer
Long
+ primitive Datatypes in Java: According to Java in a Nutshell,
5th ed boolean, byte, char, short, long float, double, int.
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Float class: The Float and Double provides the
methods isInfinite() and isNaN().
isInfinite(): returns true if the value being tested is
infinetly large or small.
isNaN(): returns true if the value being tested is not a
number.
+ Character class: defines forDigit() digit().
ForDigit(): returns the digit character associated with the
value of num.
digit(): returns the integer value associated with the
specified character (which is presumably) according to the
specified radix.

+ String Tokenizer: provide parsing process in which it
identifies the delimiters provided by the user, by default
delimiters are spaces, tab, new line etc., and separates them
from the tokens. Tokens are those which are separated by
delimiters.
+ Observable Class: Objects that subclass the Observable class
maintain a list of observers. When an Observable object is
updated it invokes the update() method of each of its
observers to notify the observers that it has changed state.
+ Observer interface: is implemented by objects that observe
Observable objects.
+ Instanceof(): is used to check to see if an object can be cast
into a specified type with out throwing a cast class exception.
+ IsInstanceof(): determines if the specified Object is
assignment-compatible with the object represented by this
class. This method is dynamic equivalent of the Java language
instanceof operator. The method returns true if the specified
Object argument is non-null and can be cast to the reference
type represented by this Class object without raising a
ClassCastException. It returns false otherwise.
+ Garbage Collection: When an object is no longer referred to
by any variable, java automatically reclaims memory used by
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that object. This is known as garbage collection.
System.gc() method may be used to call it explicitly and does
not force the garbage collection but only suggests that the
JVM may make an effort to do the Garbage Collection.
this(): can be used to invoke a constructor of the same
class.
super(): can be used to invoke a super class constructor.
+ Inner class: classes defined in other classes, including those
defined in methods are called inner classes. An inner class can
have any accessibility including private.
+ Anonymous class: Anonymous class is a class defined inside
a method without a name and is instantiated and declared in
the same place and cannot have explicit constructors.
+ What is reflection API? How are they implemented?
Reflection package is used mainlyfor the purpose of getting the
class name. by useing the getName method we can get name
of the class for particular application. Reflection is a feature of
the Java programming language. It allows an executing Java
program to examine or "introspect" upon itself, and
manipulate internal properties of the program.
+ What is heap in Java?
JAVA is fully Object oriented language. It has two phases first
one is Compilation phase and second one is interpratation
phase. The Compilation phase convert the java file to class file
(byte code is only readable format of JVM) than Intepratation
phase interprete the class file line by line and give the proper
result.
main(): is the method where Java application Begins.
String args[]: receives any command line argument
during runtime.
System: is a predefined Class that provides access to the
System.
Out: is output stream connected to console.
Println: displays the output.
+ Downcasting: is the casting from a general to a more specific
type, i.e casting down the hierarchy. Doing a cast from a base
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class to more specific Class, the cast does;t convert the
Object, just asserts it actually is a more specific extended
Object.
+ Upcasting: byte can take Integer values.
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Exception
+ Exception handling: Exception can be generated by Java-
runtime system or they can be manually generated by code.
Error-Handling becomes a necessary while developing an
application to account for exceptional situations that may
occur during the program execution, such as
Run out of memory
Resource allocation Error
Inability to find a file
Problems in Network connectivity.
If the Resource file is not present in the disk, you can use the
Exception handling mechanisim to handle such abrupt
termination of program.
+ Exception class: is used for the exceptional conditions that
are trapped by the program. An exception is an abnormal
condition or error that occur during the execution of the
program.
+ Error: the error class defines the conditions that do not occur
under normal conditions.
Eg: Run out of memory, Stack overflow error.
Java.lang.Object
+.Java.Lang.Throwable
Throwable
+.Java.lang.Error
| +.A whole bunch of errors
| Exception
Error
+.Java.Lang.Exception (Unchecked,
Checked)
+.Java.Lang.RuntimeException
| +.Various Unchecked Exception
|
+.Various checked Exceptions.
+ Two types of exceptions:
1. Checked Exceptions: must be declare in the method
declaration or caught in a catch block. Checked exception
must be handled at Compile Time. Environmental error that
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cannot necessarly be detected by Testing, Eg: disk full,
brocken Socket, Database unavailable etc.
2. Un-checked Exceptions: Run-time Exceptions and Error,
doest have to be declare.(but can be caught).
Run-time Exceptions: programming errors that should be
detectd in Testing, Arithmetic, Null pointer,
ArrayIndexOutofBounds, ArrayStore, FilenotFound,
NumberFormate, IO, OutofMemory.
Errors: Virtual mechine error class not found , out of
memory, no such method , illegal access to private field ,
etc.
+ Java Exception handling can be managed by five
keywords:
Try: The try block governs the statements that are
enclosed within it and defines the scope of exception
handler associated with it. Try block follows catch or finally
or both.
Catch: This is a default exception handler. since the
exception class is the base class for all the exception class,
this handler id capable of catching any type of exception.
The catch statement takes an Object of exception class as a
parameter, if an exception is thrown the statement in the
catch block is executed. The catch block is restricted to the
statements in the proceeding try block only.
Try {
// statements that may cause exception
} catch(Exception obj) {
}
Finally: when an exception is raised, the statement in
the try block is ignored, some times it is necessary to
process certain statements irrespective of wheather an
exception is raised or not, the finally block is used for this
purpose.
Throw: The throw class is used to call exception
explicitly. You may want to throw an exception when the
user enters a wrong login ID and pass word, you can use
throw statement to do so.
The throw statement takes an single argument, which is an
Object of exception class.
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+ Throw<throwable Instance>: If the Object does not belong
to a valid exception class the compiler gives error.
Throws: The throws statement species the list of
exception that has thrown by a method.
If a method is capable of raising an exception that is does not
handle, it must specify the exception has to be handle by the
calling method, this is done by using the throw statement.
[<access specifier>] [<access modifier>] <return
type> <method name> <arg-list> [<exception-list>]
Eg:
public void accept password() throws illegalException {
System.out.println(Intruder);
Throw new illegalAccesException;
}
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Multithreaded Programming
+ A multithreaded program contains two or more parts that can
run concurrently, Each part a program is called thread and
each part that defines a separate path of excution.
Thus multithreading is a specified from of multitasking.
+ There are two distinct types of multitasking.
Process: A Process is, in essence, a program that is
executing.
Process-based: is heavy weight- allows you run two or more
programs concurrently.
Example: you can use JAVA compiler at the same time you are
using text editor.
Here a program is a small unit of code that can be dispatched
by scheduler.
Thread-based: is Light weight- A Program can perform two or
more tasks simultaneously.
Creating a thread:
Example: A text editor can formate at the same time you can
print, as long as these two tasks are being perform separate
treads.
Thread: can be defined as single sequential flow of control
with in a program.
Single Thread: Application can perform only one task at a
time.
Multithreaded: A process having more than one thread is
said to be multithreaded.
The multiple threads in the process run at the same time,
perform different task and interact with each other.
+ Daemon Thread: Is a low priority thread which runs
immedeatly on the back ground doing the Garbage Collection
operation for the Java Run time System.
SetDaemon( ) is used to create DaemonThread.
+ Creating a Thread:
1. By implementing the Runnable Interface.
2. By extending the thread Class.
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+ Thread Class: Java.lang.Threadclass is used to construct and
access the individual threads in a multithreaded application.
Syntax: Public Class <class name> extends Thread {}
The Thread class define several methods.
Getname() obtain a thread name.
Getname() - obtain thread priority.
Start() - start a thread by calling a Run().
Run() - Entry point for the thread.
Sleep() - suspend a thread for a period of time.
IsAlive() - Determine if a thread is still running.
Join() - wait for a thread to terminate.
+ Runable Interface: The Runnable interface consist of a
Single method Run(), which is executed when the thread is
activated.
When a program need ti inherit from another class besides the
thread Class, you need to implement the Runnable interface.
Syntax: public void <Class-name> extends <SuperClass-
name> implements Runnable
Example:
public Class myapplet extends Japplet implements Runnable {
// Implement the Class
}
* Runnable interface is the most advantageous method to
create threads because we need not extend thread Class here.
+ Life Cycle of Thread:

New Thread: When an instance of a thread class is created, a
thread enters the new thread state.
Thread newThread = new Thread(this);
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You have to invoke the Start() to start the thread. ie,
newThread.Start();
Runnable: when the Start() of the thread is invoked the
thread enters into the Runnable State.
Not Runnable: A thread is said to be not runnable state if it
Is Slleping
Is Waiting
Is being blocked by another thread.
sleep(long t); where t= no: of milliseconds for which the
thread is inactive.
The sleep() is a static method because it operates on the
current thread.
Dead: A thread can either die natuarally or be killed.
- A thread dies a natural death when the loop in the Run() is
complete.
- Assigning null to the thread Object kills the thread.
- If th loop in the Run() has a hundread iterations , the life of
the thread is a hundread iterators of the loop.
IsAlive(): of the thread class is used to determine wheather a
thread has been started or stopped. If isAlive() returns true
the thread is still running otherwise running completed.
Thread Priorities: are used by the thread scheduler to decide
when each thread should ne allowed to run.To set a thread
priority, use te setpriority( ), which is a member of a thread.
final void setpriority(int level) - here level specifies the new
priority seting for the calling thread.
The value level must be with in the range:-
MIN_PRIORITY = 1
NORM_PRIORITY = 5
MAX_PRIORITY = 10
You can obtain the current priority setting by calling
getpriority() of thread.
final int getpriority()
+ Synchronization: Two ro more threads trying to access the
same method at the same point of time leads to
synchronization. If that method is declared as Synchronized ,
only one thread can access it at a time. Another thread can
access that method only if the first threads task is completed.
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+ Synchronized statement: Synchronized statements are
similar to Synchronized method.
A Synchronized statements can only be executed after a
thread has acquired a lock for the object or Class reffered in
the Synchronized statements.
The general form is:
Synchronized(object) {
// statements to be Synchronized
}
+ Inter Thread Communication: To Avoid pooling, Java
includes an elegant interprocess communication mechanisim.
Wait() - tells the calling thread to give up the monitor and go
to sleep until some other thread enters the same monitor &
call notify().
notify() - wake up the first thread that called wait() on the
same Object.
notifyall() wake up all the threads that called wait() on the
same Object.
The highest priority thread aill run fast.
+ Serialization: The process of writing the state of Object to a
byte stream to transfer over the network is known as
Serialization.
+ Deserialization: and restored these Objects by
deserialization.
+ Externalizable: is an interface that extends Serializable
interface and sends data into strems in compressed format.
It has two methods:
WriteExternal(Objectoutput out)
ReadExternal(objectInput in)
+ I/O Package:
Java.io.*;
There are two classifications.
1. ByteStream: Console Input
Read() - one character
Readline() one String
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BufferReader br = new BufferReader(new
InputStreamReader(System.in));
2. CharacterStream: File
FileInputStream - Store the contents to the File.
FileOutStream - Get the contents from File.
PrintWrite pw = new printwriter(System.out.true);
Pw.println();
Example:
Class myadd {
public static void main(String args[]) {
BufferReader br = new BufferReader(new
InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.println(Enter A no : );
int a = Integer.parseInt(br.Read());
System.out.println(Enter B no : );
int b = Integer.parseInt(br.Read());
System.out.println(The Addition is : (a+b));
}
}
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Collections
+ Collections: A collection allows a group of objects to be
treated as a single unit. collection define a set of core
Interfaces as follows.
Collection
Map Hash Map class

Hash Table class

Set Hash set List
Array List
Sorted set Tree set Vector List
Linked List
Sorted map Tree Map class
+ Collection Interface:
The CI is the root of collection hierarchy and is used for
common functionality across all collections. There is no
direct implementation of Collection Interface.
+ Set Interface: extends Collection Interface. The Class Hash
set implements Set Interface.
Is used to represent the group of unique elements.
Set stores elements in an unordered way but does not
contain duplicate elements.
+ Sorted set: extends Set Interface. The class Tree Set
implements Sorted set Interface.
It provides the extra functionality of keeping the
elements sorted.
It represents the collection consisting of Unique,
sorted elements in ascending order.
+ List: extends Collection Interface. The classes Array List,
Vector List & Linked List implements List Interface.
Represents the sequence of numbers in a fixed order.
But may contain duplicate elements.
Elements can be inserted or retrieved by their position
in the List using Zero based index.
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List stores elements in an ordered way.
+ Map Interface: basic Interface. The classesHash Map &
Hash Table implements Map interface.
Used to represent the mapping of unique keys to
values.
By using the key value we can retrive the values. Two
basic operations are get() & put().
+ Sorted Map: extends Map Interface. The Class Tree Map
implements Sorted Map Interface.
Maintain the values of key order.
The entries are maintained in ascending order.
+ Collection classes:
Abstract Collection
Abstract List Abstract Set
Abstract Map
Abstract Array List Hash Set Tree Set
Hash Map Tree Map
Sequential
List
Linked List
List Map
| |
Abstract List Dictonary
| |
Vector HashTable
| |
Stack Properities
+ HashSet: Implements Set Interface. HashSet
hs=new HashSet();
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The elements are not stored in sorted order.
hs.add(m);
+ TreeSet: Implements Sorted set Interface.
TreeSet ts=new TreeSet();
The elements are stored in sorted ascending order.
ts.add(H);
Access and retrieval times are quit fast, when storing a
large amount of data.
+ Vector: Implements List Interface.
Vector implements dynamic array. Vector v =
new vector();
Vector is a growable object.
V1.addElement(new Integer(1));
Vector is Synchronized, it cant allow special characters and
null values.
All vector starts with intial capacity, after it is reached next
time if we want to store object in vector, the vector
automatically allocates space for that Object plus extra
room for additional Objects.
+ ArrayList: Implements List Interface.
Array can dynamically increase or decrease size. ArrayList
a1=new ArrayList();
Array List are ment for Random ascessing.
A1.add(a);
Array List are created with intial size, when the size is
increased, the collection is automatically enlarged. When an
Objects are removed, the array may be shrunk.
+ Linked List: Implements List Interface.
Inserting or removing elements in the middle of the array.
LinkedList l1=new LinkedList();
Linked list are meant for Sequential accessing.
L1.add(R);
Stores Objects in a separate link.
+ Map Classes: Abstract Map; Hash Map; Tree Map
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+ Hash Map: Implements Map Interface. Hashmap(),
Hashmap(Map m), Hashmap(int capacity)
The Elements may not in Order.
Hash Map is not synchronized and permits null values
Hash Map is not serialized. Hashmap hm
= new HashMap();
Hash Map supports Iterators.
hm.put(Hari,new Double(11.9));
+ Hash Table: Implements Map Interface.
Hash Table is synchronized and does not permit null values.
Hash Table is Serialized. Hashtable ht = new
Hashtable( );
Stores key/value pairs in Hash Table.
ht.put(Prasadi,new Double(74.6));
A Hash Table stores information by using a mechanism called
hashing. In hashing the informational content of a key is used
to determine a unique value, called its Hash Code. The Hash
Code is then used as the index at which the data associated
with the key is stored. The Transformation of the key into its
Hash Code is performed automatically- we never see the Hash
Code. Also the code cant directly index into h c.
+ Tree Map: Implements Sorted Set Interface. TreeMap
tm=new TreeMap();
The elements are stored in sorted ascending order.
tm.put( Prasad,new Double(74.6));
Using key value we can retrieve the data.
Provides an efficient means of storing key/value pairs in
sorted order and allows rapid retrivals.
+ Iterator: Each of collection class provided an iterator().
By using this iterator Object, we can access each element in
the collection one at a time.
We can remove();
Hashnext() go next; if it returns false end of list.
Iterarator Enumerator
Iterator itr = a1.iterator(); Enumerator vEnum =
v.element();
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While(itr.hashNext()) System.out.println(Elements
in Vector :);
{ while(vEnum.hasMoreElements() )
Object element = itr.next();
System.out.println(vEnum.nextElement() + );
System.out.println(element + );
}
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Collections
+ Introduction:
Does your class need a way to easily search through
thousands of items quickly?
Does it need an ordered sequence of elements and the
ability to rapidly insert and remove elements in the middle
of the sequence?
Does it need an array like structure with random-access
ability that can grow at runtime?
List Map
| |
Abstract List Dictonary
| |
Vector HashTable
| |
Stack Properities
+ The Enumeration Interface:
enumerate (obtain one at a time) the elements in a
collection of objects.
specifies two methods:
1. boolean hasMoreElements(): Returns true when there
are still more elements to extract, and false when all of the
elements have been enumerated.
2. Object nextElement(): Returns the next object in the
enumeration as a generic Object reference.
+ Vector:
Vector implements dynamic array. Vector v =
new vector();
Vector is a growable object.
V1.addElement(new Integer(1));
Vector is Synchronized, it cant allow special characters and
null values.
Vector is a variable-length array of object references.
Vectors are created with an initial size.
When this size is exceeded, the vector is automatically
enlarged.
When objects are removed, the vector may be shrunk.
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Constructors:
Vector(): Default constructor with initial size 10.
Vector(int size): Vector whose initial capacity is
specified by size.
Vector(int size, int incr): Vector whose initialize
capacity is specified by size and whose increment is
specified by incr.
Methods:
final void addElement(Object element): The object
specified by element is added to the vector.
final Object elementAt(int index): Returns the
element at the location specified by index.
final boolean removeElement(Object element):
Removes element from the vector
final boolean isEmpty(): Returns true if the vector
is empty, false otherwise.
final int size(): Returns the number of elements
currently in the vector.
final boolean contains(Object element): Returns
true if element is contained by the vector and false if it is
not.
+ Stack:
Stack is a subclass of Vector that implements a standard
last-in, first-out stack
Constructors:
Stack() Creates an empty stack.
Methods:
Object push(Object item): Pushes an item onto the
top of this stack.
Object pop(): Removes the object at the top of this
stack and returns that object as the value of this function.
An EmptyStackException is thrown if it is called on empty
stack.
boolean empty(): Tests if this stack is empty.
Object peek(): Looks at the object at the top of this
stack without removing it from the stack.
int search(Object o): Determine if an object exists
on the stack and returns the number of pops that would be
required to bring it to the top of the stack.
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+ HashTable:
Hash Table is synchronized and does not permit null values.
Hash Table is Serialized.
Hashtable ht = new Hashtable( );

Stores key/value pairs in Hash Table.
ht.put(Prasadi,new Double(74.6));
Hashtable is a concrete implementation of a Dictionary.
Dictionary is an abstract class that represents a key/value
storage repository.
A Hashtable instance can be used store arbitrary objects
which are indexed by any other arbitrary object.
A Hashtable stores information using a mechanism called
hashing.
When using a Hashtable, you specify an object that is used
as a key and the value (data) that you want linked to that
key.
Constructors:
Hashtable()
Hashtable(int size)
Methods:
Object put(Object key,Object value): Inserts a key
and a value into the hashtable.
Object get(Object key): Returns the object that
contains the value associated with key.
boolean contains(Object value): Returns true if the
given value is available in the hashtable. If not, returns
false.
boolean containsKey(Object key): Returns true if
the given key is available in the hashtable. If not, returns
false.
Enumeration elements(): Returns an enumeration of
the values contained in the hashtable.
int size(): Returns the number of entries in the
hashtable.
+ Properties
Properties is a subclass of Hashtable
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Used to maintain lists of values in which the key is a String
and the value is also a String
Constructors:
Properties()
Properties(Properties propDefault): Creates an
object that uses propDefault for its default value.
Methods:
String getProperty(String key): Returns the value
associated with key.
Strng getProperty(String key, String
defaultProperty): Returns the value associated with key.
defaultProperty is returned if key is neither in the list nor in
the default property list.
Enumeration propertyNames(): Returns an
enumeration of the keys. This includes those keys found in
the default property list.
+ The Interfaces in Collections Framework
Collection Map Iterator
Set List SortedMap ListIterator
|
SortedSet
+ Collection:
A collection allows a group of objects to be treated as a
single unit.
The Java collections library forms a framework for collection
classes.
The CI is the root of collection hierarchy and is used for
common functionality across all collections.
There is no direct implementation of Collection Interface.
Two fundamental interfaces for containers:
Collection
boolean add(Object element): Inserts element into a
collection
Set Interface: extends Collection Interface. The Class Hash
set implements Set Interface.
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Is used to represent the group of unique elements.
Set stores elements in an unordered way but does not
contain duplicate elements.
identical to Collection interface, but doesnt accept
duplicates.
Sorted set: extends Set Interface. The class Tree Set
implements Sorted set Interface.
It provides the extra functionality of keeping the elements
sorted.
It represents the collection consisting of Unique, sorted
elements in ascending order.
expose the comparison object for sorting.
+ List Interface:
ordered collection Elements are added into a particular
position.
Represents the sequence of numbers in a fixed order.
But may contain duplicate elements.
Elements can be inserted or retrieved by their position in
the List using Zero based index.
List stores elements in an ordered way.
Map Interface: Basic Interface.The classes Hash Map &
HashTable implements Map interface.
Used to represent the mapping of unique keys to values.
By using the key value we can retrive the values.
Two basic operations are get() & put().
boolean put(Object key, Object value) : Inserts given
value into map with key
Object get(Object key): Reads value for the given key.
Tree Map Class: Implements Sorted Set Interface.
The elements are stored in sorted ascending order.
Using key value we can retrieve the data.
Provides an efficient means of storing key/value pairs in
sorted order and allows rapid retrivals.
TreeMap tm=new TreeMap();
tm.put( Kishore, new Double(74.6));
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+ The Classes in Collections Framework
Abstract Collection
Abstract List Abstract Set
Abstract Map
Abstract Array List Hash Set Tree Set
Hash Map Tree Map
Sequential
List
Linked List
ArrayList
Similar to Vector: it encapsulates a dynamically reallocated
Object[] array
Why use an ArrayList instead of a Vector?
All methods of the Vector class are synchronized, It is safe
to access a Vector object from two threads.
ArrayList methods are not synchronized, use ArrayList in
case of no synchronization
Use get and set methods instead of elementAt and
setElementAt methods of vector
HashSet
Implements a set based on a hashtable
The default constructor constructs a hashtable with 101
buckets and a load factor of 0.75
HashSet(int initialCapacity)
HashSet(int initialCapacity,float loadFactor)
loadFactor is a measure of how full the hashtable is allowed
to get before its capacity is automatically increased
Use Hashset if you dont care about the ordering of the
elements in the collection.
TreeSet
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Similar to hash set, with one added improvement
A tree set is a sorted collection
Insert elements into the collection in any order, when it is
iterated, the values are automatically presented in sorted
order
Maps: Two implementations for maps:
HashMap
hashes the keys.
The Elements may not in Order.
Hash Map is not synchronized and permits null values.
Hash Map is not serialized.
Hash Map supports Iterators.
TreeMap
uses a total ordering on the keys to organize them in a
search tree.
The hash or comparison function is applied only to the keys.
The values associated with the keys are not hashed or
compared.
+ How are memory leaks possible in Java?
If any object variable is still pointing to some object which is of
no use, then JVM will not garbage collect that object and
object will remain in memory creating memory leak
+ What are the differences between EJB and Java beans?
the main difference is Ejb componenets are distributed which
means develop once and run anywhere. java beans are not
distributed. which means the beans cannot be shared .
+ What would happen if you say this = null?
this will give a compilation error as follows cannot assign value
to final variable this
+ Will there be a performance penalty if you make a
method synchronized? If so, can you make any design
changes to improve the performance?
Yes, the performance will be down if we use synchronization.
one can minimise the penalty by including garbage collection
algorithm, which reduces the cost of collecting large numbers
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of short - lived objects. and also by using Improved thread
synchronization for invoking the synchronized methods.the
invoking will be faster.
+ How would you implement a thread pool?
public class ThreadPool extends java.lang.Object implements
ThreadPoolInt
This class is an generic implementation of a thread pool, which
takes the following input
a) Size of the pool to be constructed
b) Name of the class which implements Runnable
(which has a visible default constructor) and constructs a
thread pool with active threads that are waiting for
activation. once the threads have finished processing they
come back and wait once again in the pool.
This thread pool engine can be locked i.e. if some internal
operation is performed on the pool then it is preferable that
the thread engine be locked. Locking ensures that no new
threads are issued by the engine. However, the currently
executing threads are allowed to continue till they come back
to the passivePool
+ How does serialization work?
Its like FIFO method (first in first out).
+ How does garbage collection work?
There are several basic strategies for garbage collection:
reference counting, mark-sweep, mark-compact, and copying.
In addition, some algorithms can do their job incrementally
(the entire heap need not be collected at once, resulting in
shorter collection pauses), and some can run while the user
program runs (concurrent collectors). Others must perform an
entire collection at once while the user program is suspended
(so-called stop-the-world collectors). Finally, there are hybrid
collectors, such as the generational collector employed by the
1.2 and later JDKs, which use different collection algorithms on
different areas of the heap.

+ How would you pass a java integer by reference to
another function?
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Passing by reference is impossible in JAVA but Java support
the object reference so.
Object is the only way to pass the integer by refrence.

+ What is the sweep and paint algorithm?
The painting algorithm takes as input a source image and a list
of brush sizes. sweep algo is that it computes the arrangement
of n lines in the plane... a correct algorithm,
+ Can a method be static and synchronized?
no a static mettod can't be synchronized.
+ Do multiple inheritance in Java?
Its not possible directly. That means this feature is not
provided by Java, but it can be achieved with the help of
Interface. By implementing more than one interface.
+ What is data encapsulation? What does it buy you?
The most common example I can think of is a javabean.
Encapsulation may be used by creating 'get' and 'set' methods
in a class which are used to access the fields of the object.
Typically the fields are made private while the get and set
methods are public.
dEncapsulation can be used to validate the data that is to be
stored, to do calculations on data that is stored in a field or
fields, or for use in introspection (often the case when using
javabeans in Struts, for instance).
+ What is reflection API? How are they implemented?
Reflection package is used mainlyfor the purpose of getting the
class name. by using the getName method we can get name of
the class for particular application.
Reflection is a feature of the Java programming language. It
allows an executing Java program to examine or "introspect"
upon itself, and manipulate internal properties of the program.
+ What are the primitive types in Java?
According to Java in a Nutshell, 5th edition.
boolean, byte, char, short, long float, double, int.
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+ Is there a separate stack for each thread in Java?
No
+ What is heap in Java?
JAVA is fully Object oriented language. It has two phases first
one is Compilation phase and second one is interpratation
phase. The Compilation phase convert the java file to class file
(byte code is only readable format of JVM) than Intepratation
phase interorate the class file line by line and give the proper
result.
+ In Java, how are objects / values passed around?
In Java Object are passed by reference and Primitive data is
always pass by value
Do primitive types have a class representation
Primitive data type has a wrapper class to present.
Like for int - Integer , for byte Byte, for long Long etc...
+ How all can you free memory?
With the help of finalize() method.
If a programmer really wants to explicitly request a garbage
collection at some point, System.gc() or Runtime.gc() can be
invoked, which will fire off a garbage collection at that time.
+ Does java do reference counting?
It is more likely that the JVMs you encounter in the real world
will use a tracing algorithm in their garbage-collected heaps.
+ What does a static inner class mean? How is it different
from any other static member?
A static inner class behaves like any outer'' class. It may
contain methods and fields.
It is not necessarily the case that an instance of the outer
class exists even when we have created an instance of the
inner class. Similarly, instantiating the outer class does not
create any instances of the inner class.
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The methods of a static inner class may access all the
members (fields or methods) of the inner class but they can
access only static members (fields or methods) of the outer
class. Thus, f can access the field x, but it cannot access the
field y.
+ How do you declare constant values in java?
Using Final keyword we can declare the constant values How
all can you instantiate final members Final member can be
instantiate only at the time of declaration. null
+ How is serialization implemented in Java?
A particular class has to implement an Interface
java.io.Serializable for implementing serialization. When you
have an object passed to a method and when the object is
reassigned to a different one, then is the original reference lost
No Reference is not lost. Java always passes the object by
reference, now two references is pointing to the same object.
+ What are the different kinds of exceptions? How do you
catch a Runtime exception?
There are 2 types of exceptions.
1. Checked exception
2. Unchecked exception.
1. Checked exception is catched at the compile time while
unchecked exception is checked at run time. Environmental
error that cannot necessarily be detected by testing;
e.g. disk full, broken socket, database unavailable, etc.
2. Unchecked exception
Errors: Virtual machine error: class not found, out of
memory, no such method, illegal access to private field, etc.
Runtime Exceptions: Programming errors that should be
detected in testing: index out of bounds, null pointer, illegal
argument, etc.
Checked exceptions must be handled at compile time.
Runtime exceptions do not need to be. Errors often cannot
be.
+ What are the differences between JIT and HotSpot?
The Hotspot VM is a collection of techniques, the most
significant of which is called "adaptive optimization.
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The original JVMs interpreted bytecodes one at a time.
Second-generation JVMs added a JIT compiler, which compiles
each method to native code upon first execution, then
executes the native code. Thereafter, whenever the method is
called, the native code is executed. The adaptive optimization
technique used by Hotspot is a hybrid approach, one that
combines bytecode interpretation and run-time compilation to
native code.
Hotspot, unlike a regular JIT compiling VM, doesn't do
"premature optimization"
+ What is a memory footprint? How can you specify the
lower and upper limits of the RAM used by the JVM?
What happens when the JVM needs more memory?
when JVM needs more memory then it does the garbage
collection, and sweeps all the memory which is not being used.
+ What are the disadvantages of reference counting in
garbage collection?
An advantage of this scheme is that it can run in small chunks
of time closely interwoven with the execution of the program.
This characteristic makes it particularly suitable for real-time
environments where the program can't be interrupted for very
long. A disadvantage of reference counting is that it does not
detect cycles. A cycle is two or more objects that refer to one
another, for example, a parent object that has a reference to
its child object, which has a reference back to its parent. These
objects will never have a reference count of zero even though
they may be unreachable by the roots of the executing
program. Another disadvantage is the overhead of
incrementing and decrementing the reference count each time.
Because of these disadvantages, reference counting currently
is out of favor.
+ Is it advisable to depend on finalize for all cleanups?
The purpose of finalization is to give an opportunity to an
unreachable object to perform any clean up before the object
is garbage collected, and it is advisable.
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+ can we declare multiple main() methods in multiple
classes. ie can we have each main method in its class in
our program?
YES.
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JDBC
+ How to Interact with DB?
Generally every DB vendor provides a User Interface through
which we can easily execute SQL querys and get the result
(For example Oracle Query Manager for Oracle, and TOAD
(www.quest.com) tool common to all the databases). And
these tools will help DB developers to create database. But as
a programmer we want to interact with the DB dynamically to
execute some SQL queries from our application (Any
application like C, C++, JAVA etc), and for this requirement DB
vendors provide some Native Libraries (Vendor Specific) using
this we can interact with the DB i.e. If you want to execute
some queries on Oracle DB, oracle vendor provides an OCI
(Oracle Call Interface) Libraries to perform the same.
+ About ODBC: What is ODBC?
ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is an ISV (Independent
software vendor product) composes of native API to connect to
different databases through via a single API called ODBC.
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is an SQL oriented
application programming interface developed by in
collaboration with IBM and some other database vendors.
ODBC comes with Microsoft products and with all databases on
Windows OS.
+ ODBC Architecture
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function
calls
Front End
Application
Oracle ODBC
SQL server
ODBC
Sybase ODBC
Oracle
ODBC API
SP API
SQL
server
Sybase
SP API
SP API
Oracle DSN
My DSN
SQL Server DSN
Sybase DSN
Our DSN
Oracle ODBC
SQL server ODBC
Sybase ODBC
Oracle
SQL
Server
Sybase
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+ Advantages
Single API (Protocol) is used to interact with any DB
Switching from one DB to another is easy
Doesnt require any modifications in the Application when
you want to shift from one DB to other.
+ What for JDBC?
As we have studied about ODBC and is advantages and came
to know that it provides a common API to interact with any DB
which has an ODBC Service Providers Implementation written
in Native API that can be used in your applications.
If an application wants to interact with the DB then the options
which have been explained up to now in this book are:
1. Using Native Libraries given by the DB vendor
2. Using ODBC API
And we have listed there Advantages and Disadvantages.
But if the application is a JAVA application then the above
given options are not recommended to be used due to the
following reasons
1. Native Libraries given by DB vendor
a. Application becomes vendor dependent and
b. The application has to use JNI to interact with Native
Lib which may cause serious problem for Platform
Independency in our applications.
2. And the second option given was using ODBC API which can
solve the 1.a problem but again this ODBC API is also a
Native API, so we have to use JNI in our Java applications
which lead to the 1.b described problem.
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And the answer for these problems is JDBC (Java Data Base
Connectivity) which provides a common Java API to interact
with any DB.
+ What is JDBC?
As explained above JDBC standards for Java Data Base
Connectivity. It is a specification given by Sun Microsystems
and standards followed by X/Open SAG (SQL Access Group)
CLI (Call Level Interface) to interact with the DB.
Java programing language methods. The JDBC API provides
database-independent connectivity between the JAVA
Applications and a wide range of tabular data bases. JDBC
technology allows an application component provider to:
Perform connection and authentication to a database
server
Manage transactions
Moves SQL statements to a database engine for
preprocessing and execution
Executes stored procedures
Inspects and modifies the results from SELECT
statements
+ JDBC API
JDBC API is divided into two parts
1. JDBC Core API
2. JDBC Extension or Optional API
+ JDBC Core API (java.sql package)
This part of API deals with the following futures
1. Establish a connection to a DB
2. Getting DB Details
3. Getting Driver Details
4. maintaining Local Transaction
5. executing querys
6. getting results (ResultSet)
7. preparing pre-compiled SQL querys and executing
8. executing procedures & functions
+ JDBC Ext OR Optional API (javax.sql package)
This part of API deals with the following futures
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1. Resource Objects with Distributed Transaction
Management support
2. Connection Pooling.
These two parts of Specification are the part of J2SE and are
inherited into J2EE i.e. this specification API can be used with
all the components given under J2SE and J2EE.
+ JDBC Architecture:


In the above show archetecture diagram the JDBC Driver
forms an abstraction layer between the JAVA Application and
DB, and is implemented by 3rd party vendors or a DB Vendor.
But whoever may be the vendor and what ever may be the DB
we need not to worry will just us JDCB API to give instructions
to JDBC Driver and then its the responsibility of JDBC Driver
Provider to convert the JDBC Call to the DB Specific Call.
And this 3
rd
party vendor or DB vendor implemented Drivers
are classified into 4-Types namely
+ Types Of Drivers:
1. Type-1 (JDBC ODBC-Bridge Driver) JDBC-ODBC Bridge
Driver
2. Type-2 (Java-Native API Driver) Native API Partly
JAVA Driver (Thick Driver)
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JDBC Driver
Oracle DB
MS SQL
Server DB
Sybase DB
JDB
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S
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3. Type-3 (Java Net Protocol Driver) Intermediate
DataBase Access Server
4. Type-4 (Java Native Protocol driver) Pure JAVA Driver
(Thin driver)
Type-1 : JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver :
Since ODBC is written in C-language using
pointers, so JAVA doest support pointers, a java program cant
communate directly with the DataBase. The JDBC-ODBC bridge
drivertransulates JDBC API calls to ODBC API calls.
Architecture
This type of Driver is designed to convert the JDBC request call
to ODBC call and ODBC response call to JDBC call.
The JDBC uses this interface in order to communicate with
the database, so neither the database nor the middle tier need to
be Java compliant. However ODBC binary code must be installed
on each client machine that uses this driver. This bridge driver
uses a configured data source.
Advantages
Simple to use because ODBC drivers comes with DB
installation/Microsoft front/back office product installation
JDBC ODBC Drivers comes with JDK software
Disadvantages
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JDBC
ODBC
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Native
ODBC
Client
driver
Libraries
DBMS
Interface
client
libraries
DBMS
Interface
Server
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More number of layers between the application and DB.
And more number of API conversions leads to the
downfall of the performance.
Slower than type-2 driver
Where to use?
This type of drivers are generaly used at the development time
to test your applications.
Because of the disadvantages listed above it is not used at
production time. But if we are not available with any other type
of driver implementations for a DB then we are forced to use this
type of driver (for example Microsoft Access).
Examples of this type of drivers
JdbcOdbcDriver from sun
Suns JdbcOdbcDriver is one of type-1 drivers and comes along
with sun j2sdk (JDK).
Setting environment to use this driver
1. Software
ODBC libraries has to be installed.
2. classpath
No additional classpath settings are required apart from the
runtime jar (c:\j2sdk1.4\jre\lib\rt.jar) which is defaultly
configured.
3. Path
No additional path configuration is required.
How to use this driver
1. Driver class name sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver
2. Driver URL dbc:odbc:<DSN>
here <DSN> (Data Source Name) is an ODBC datasource
name which is used by ODBC driver to locate one of the
ODBC Service Provider implementation API which can in-
turn connect to DB.
Steps to create <DSN>
1. run Data Sources (ODBC) from Control
Panal\Administrative Tools\
(for Windows 2000 server/2000 professional/XP)
run ODBC Data Sources from Control Panel\
2. click on Add button available on the above displayed screen.
this opens a new window titled Create New Data Source
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which displays all the available DBs lable DBs ODBC drivers
currently installed on your system.
3. Select the suitable driver and click on Finish
4. Give the required info to the driver (like username, service id
etc)
Type-2 : Native API Partly JAVA Driver (Thick Driver) :
JDBC Database calls are translated into
Vendor-specific API calls. The database will process the
request and send the results back through API to JDBC
Driver this will translate the results to the JDBC standard
and return them to the Java application.
The Vendor specific language API must be installed on every
client that runs the JAVA application.
Architecture
This driver converts the JDBC call given by the Java application
to a DB specific native call (i.e. to C or C++) using JNI (Java
Native Interface).
Advantages :Faster than the other types of drivers due to native
library participation in socket programing.
Disadvantage : DB spcifiic native client library has to be
installed in the client machine.
Preferablly work in local network environment because
network service name must be configured in client
system
Where to use?
This type of drivers are suitable to be used in server side
applications.
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Application
JDBC Type II
Driver
DBMS Client
libraries (native)
DBMS Server
libraries (native)
DBMS
JDBC
API
SP API
SP
N/W
Libra
ries
OCI
Libraries
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Not recommended to use with the applications using two tire
model (i.e. client and database layers) because in this type of
model client used to interact with DB using the driver and in such
a situation the client system sould have the DB native library.
Examples of this type of drivers
1. OCI 8 (Oracle Call Interface) for Oracle implemented by
Oracle Corporation.
Setting environment to use this driver
Software: Oracle client software has to be installed in
client machine
classpath %ORACLE_HOME
%\ora81\jdbc\lib\classes111.zip
path %ORACLE_HOME%\ora81\bin
How to use this driver
Driver class name oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
Driver URL jdbc:oracle:oci8:@TNSName
Note: TNS Names of Oracle is available in Oracle installed
folder %ORACLE_HOME
%\Ora81\network\admin\tnsnames.ora
2. Weblogic Jdriver for Oracle implemented by BEA Weblogic:
Setting environment to use this driver
Oracle client software has to be installed in client machine
weblogicoic dlls has to be set in the path
classpath
d:\bea\weblogic700\server\lib\weblogic.jar
path %ORACLE_HOME%\ora81\bin;
d:\bea\weblogic700\server\bin\<subfolder><sub folder>
is
o oci817_8 if you are using Oracle 8.1.x
o oci901_8 for Oracle 9.0.x
o oci920_8 for Oracle 9.2.x
How to use this driver
Driver class name weblogic.jdbc.oci.Driver
Driver URL jdbc:weblogic:oracle:HostName
Type-3 Intermediate DataBase Access Server :
Type-3 Driver uses an
Intermediate(middleware) database driver that has the ability to
connect multiple JAVA clients to multiple database servers.
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Client connect to the Databse server via an Intermediate
server component (such as listener) that acts as a gateway for
multple database servers.
Bea weblogic includes Type-3 Driver.
Architecture :

This type of drivers responsibility is to convert JDBC
call to Net protocol (Middleware listener dependent) format and
redirect the client request to Middleware Listener and middleware
listener inturn uses type-1, type-2 or type-4 driver to interact
with DB.
Advantages:
It allows the flexibility on the architecture of the application.
In absence of DB vendor supplied driver we can use this
driver
Suitable for Applet clients to connect DB, because it uses
Java libraries for communication between client and server.
Disadvantages:
From client to server communication this driver uses Java
libraries, but from server to DB connectivity this driver uses
native libraries, hence number of API conversion and layer
of interactions increases to perform operations that leads to
performance deficit.
Third party vendor dependent and this driver may not
provide suitable driver for all DBs
Where to use?
Suitable for Applets when connecting to databases
Examples of this type of drivers:
1. IDS Server (Intersolv) driver available for most of the
Databases
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Application
JDBC Type III
Driver
Middleware
Listener
DBMS Interface
Client
DBMS Interface
Server
Listener
JDBC
API
Net protocol
OCI Libraries DBMS
DBMS API
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Setting environment to use this driver
Software: IDS software required to be downloaded from
the following URL
[ http://www.idssoftware.com/idsserver.html -> Export
Evaluation ]
classpath C:\IDSServer\classes\jdk14drv.jar
path
How to use this driver
Driver class name ids.sql.IDSDriver
Driver URL jdbc:ids://localhost:12/conn?
dsn='IDSExamples'
Note: DSN Name must be created in ServerDSN
Type-4 Pure JAVA Driver (Thin driver) :
Type-4 Driver translates JDBC-API calls to
direct network calls using vendor specific networking protocols by
making direct server connections with the database.
Architecture
This type of driver converts the JDBC call to a DB defined native
protocol.
Advantage
Type-4 driver are simple to deploy since there is No client
native libraries required to be installed in client machine
Comes with most of the Databases
Disadvantages:
Slower in execution compared with other JDBC Driver due to
Java libraries are used in socket communication with the DB
Where to use?
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Server Listener
JDBC
Application
JDBC Type IV
Driver
JDBC
API
DBMS
API
DBMS
Native Protocol
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This type of drivers are sutable to be used with server side
applications, client side application and Java Applets also.
Examples of this type of drivers
1) Thin driver for Oracle implemented by Oracle Corporation
Setting environment to use this driver
classpath %ORACLE_HOME
%\ora81\jdbc\lib\classes111.zip
How to use this driver
Driver class name oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
Driver URL jdbc:oracle:thin:@HostName:<port
no>:<SID>
<port no> 1521
<SID> -> ORCL
2) MySQL Jconnector for MySQL database
Setting environment to use this driver
classpath C:\mysql\mysql-connector-java-3.0.8-
stable\mysql-connector-java-3.0.8-stable-bin.jar
How to use this driver
Driver class name com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
Driver URL jdbc:mysql:///test
Chapter 3 [JDBC Core API]
In this chapter we are going to discuss about 3 versions of
JDBC: JDBC 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
Q) How JDBC API is common to all the Databases and also
to all drivers?
A) Fine! The answer is JDBC API uses Factory Method and
Abstract Factory Design pattern implementations to make API
common to all the Databases and Drivers. In fact most of the
classes available in JDBC API are interfaces, where Driver
vendors must provide implementation for the above said
interfaces.
Q) Then how JDBC developer can remember or find out the
syntaxes of vendor specific classes?
A) No! developer need not have to find out the syntaxes of
vendor specific implementations why because DriverManager is
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one named class available in JDBC API into which if you register
Driver class name, URL, user and password, DriverManager class
in-turn brings us one Connection object.
Q) Why most of the classes given in JDBC API are interfaces?
A) Why abstract class and abstract methods are?
Abstract class forces all sub classes to implement common
methods whichever are required implementations. Only abstract
method and class can do this job. Thats why most part of the
JDBC API is a formation of interfaces.
JDBC API comes in 2 packages
java.sql.*
javax.sql.*
First of all I want to discuss briefly about all the list of interfaces
and classes available in java.sql. package
Interfaces index
Driver
Every JDBC Driver vendor must one sub class of this class for
initial establishment of Connections. DriverManager class need to
be first registered with this class before accepting URL and other
information for getting DB connection.
Method index
Connection connect(String url, Properties info)
This method takes URL argument and user name &
password info as Properties object
boolean acceptURL(String url)
This method returns boolean value true if the given URL is
correct, false if any wrong in URL
boolean jdbcComplaint()
JDBC compliance requires full support for the JDBC API and
full support for SQL 92 Entry Level. It is expected that JDBC
compliant drivers will be available for all the major
commercial databases.
Connection
Connection is class in-turn holds the TCP/IP connection with
DB. Functions available in this class are used to manage
connection live-ness as long as JDBC application wants to
connect with DB. The period for how long the connection exists is
called as Session. This class also provides functions to execute
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various SQL statements on the DB. For instance the operations
for DB are mainly divided into 3 types
DDL (create, alter, and drop)
DML (insert, select, update and delete)
DCL (commit, rollback) and also
call function_name (or) call procedure_name
Method Index
Statement createStatement()
PreparedStatement prepareStatement(String
preSqlOperation)
CallableStatement prepareCall(String callToProc())
Statement
Statement class is the super class in its hierarchy. Provides
basic functions to execute query (select) and non-related (create,
alter, drop, insert, update, delete) query operations.
Method Index
int executeUpdate(String sql)
This function accepts non-query based SQL operations; the
return value int tells that how many number of rows
effected/updated by the given SQL operation.
ResultSet executeQuery(String sql)
This function accepts SQL statement SELECT and returns java
buffer object which contains temporary instance of SQL structure
maintaining all the records retrieved from the DB. This object
exists as long as DB connection exist.
boolean execute()
This function accepts all SQL operations including SELECT
statement also.
PreparedStatement
PreparedStatement class is sub classing from Statement
class. While connection class prepareStatement function is
creating one new instance this class, function takes one String
argument that contains basic syntax of SQL operation
represented with ? for IN parameter representation. In the
further stages of the JDBC program, programmer uses setXXX(int
index, datatype identifier) to pass values into IN parameter and
requests exdcute()/ exuecteUpdate() call.
Method Index
setInt(int index, int value) similar functions are provided
for all other primitive parameters
setString(int index, String value)
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setObject(int index, Object value)
setBinaryStream(int index, InputStream is, int length)
CallableStatement
ResultSet ResultSetMetaData
DatabaseMetaData
BLOB CLOB REF
SavePoint Struct
SQLInput SQLOutput SQLData
Class diagram required here
// TypeI DriverTest,java
package com.digitalbook.j2ee.jdbc;
import java.sql.*;
public class TypeIDriverTest
{
Connection con;
Statement stmt;
ResultSet rs;
public TypeIDriverTest ()
{
try {
// Load driver class into default ClassLoader
Class.forName ("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
// Obtain a connection with the loaded driver
con =DriverManager.getConnection
("jdbc:odbc:digitalbook","scott","tiger");
URL String -
("<protocol>:<subprotocol>:<subname>", " ", " " ); }
// create a statement
st=con.createStatement();
//execute SQL query
rs =st.executeQuery ("select ename,sal from emp");
System.out.println ("Name Salary");
System.out.println ("--------------------------------");
while(rs.next())
{
System.out.println (rs.getString(1)+"
"+rs.getString(2));
}
rs.close ();
stmt.close ();
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con.close ();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace ();
}
}
public static void main (String args[])
{
TypeIDriverTest demo=new TypeIDriverTest ();
}
}
// TypeIIDriverTest,java
package com.digitalbook.j2ee.jdbc;
import java.sql.*;
public class TypeIIDriverTest
{
Connection con;
Statement stmt;
ResultSet rs;
public TypeIIDriverTest ()
{
try {
// Load driver class into default ClassLoader
Class.forName ("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
// Obtain a connection with the loaded driver
con =DriverManager.getConnection
("jdbc:oracle:oci8:@digital","scott","tiger");
// create a statement
st=con.createStatement();
//execute SQL query
rs =st.executeQuery ("select ename,sal from emp");
System.out.println ("Name Salary");
System.out.println ("--------------------------------");
while(rs.next())
{
System.out.println (rs.getString(1)+"
"+rs.getString(2));
}
rs.close ();
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stmt.close ();
con.close ();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace ();
}
}
public static void main (String args[])
{
TypeIIDriverTest demo=new TypeIIDriverTest ();
}
}
Chapter 9 : [javax.sql package]
This package supplements the java.sql package and is included
as a part of JDK 1.4 version. This package mainly provides
following features:
1. DataSource interface was introduced in substitution to
DriverManager class for getting connection objects.
2. Connection Pooling
3. Distributed TX management
4. RowSets
Applications can directly use DataSource and RowSet API but
connection pooling and Distributed TX management APIs are
used internally by the middle-tier infrastructure.
DataSource
DataSource is an interface. Driver vendor will provide
implementation for this interface (That means in case JDBC
Driver Type II driver Oracle vendor for Oracle DB, Intersolv in
case of IDSServer). This object is used to obtain connections into
any type of JDBC program. Though DriverManager class is ideal
for getting DB connection object, this class provides some extra
features over DriverManager class:
Applications will obtain DB connection objects through via this
factory class
DataSource object will be registered into JNDI, hence any
application connected in the network can obtain this object by
requesting JNDI API, DataSource class is having one method
called getConnection() geives one Connection object
Application do not need to hard code a driver class
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Changes can be made to a data source properties, which means
that it is not necessary to make changes in application code
when something about the data source or driver changes
Connection pooling and Distributed transactions are available
through only the connection obtained from this object.
Connection obtained through DriverManager class do not have
this capability
DataSource interface is implemented by driver vendor. There
are 3 types of implementations available:
1. Basic Implementation- Produces a standard connection
object.
2. Connection Pooling Implementation- Produces a
connection object that automatically participates in
connection pooling. This implementation works with a
middle-tier connection pooling manager.
3. Distributed transaction implementation- Produces a
connection object that may be used for distributed
transactions and almost always participates in connection
pooling. This implementation works with a middle-tier
transaction manager and almost always with a connection
pool manager.
A driver that is accessed via a DataSource object does not
register itself with the DriverManager. Rather, a DataSource
object is retrieved though a lookup operation and then used to
create a Connection object. With a basic implementation, the
connection obtained through a DataSource object is identical to a
connection obtained through the DriverManager facility.
Method Index
Connection getConnection() This function returns
Connection object on demand of this method.
Connection getConnection(String user, String pass) This
function returns Connection object on demand of this
method by passing username and password.
Sub classes of this interface are
Type III Driver IDSServer Intersolv ids.jdbc.IDSDataSource
Type III Driver WebLogic BEA weblogic.jdbc.jta.DataSource
XA Support
Connection Pooling
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Connections made via a DataSource object that is
implemented to work with a middle tier connection pool manager
will participate in connection pooling. This can improve the
performance dramatically because creating a new connection is
very expensive.
Connection Pool provides following features:
Substantial improvement in the performance of DB
application can be accomplished by pre-caching the DB
connection objects
CPM supplied DB connections are remote enable
CPM supplied DB connections are cluster aware
CPM supplied DB connections supports DTM (distributed
TXs)
CPM supplied DB connections are not actual DB Connection
objects, in turn they are remote object, hence even though
client closes DB connection using con.close() the actual
connection may not be closed instead RMI connection
between client to CPM are closed
CPM supplied DB connection objects are serializable, hence
client from any where in the network can access DB
connections
The classes and interfaces used for connection pooling are:
1. ConnectionPoolDataSource
2. PooledConnection
3. ConnectionEvent
4. ConnectionEventListener
Connection Pool Manager resided on middle tier system uses
these classes and interfaces behind the scenes. When the
ConnectionPooledDataSource object is called on to create
PooledConnection object, the connection pool manager will
register as a ConnectionEventListener object with the new
PooledConnection object. When the connection is closed or there
is an error, the connection pool manager (being listener) gets a
notification that includes a ConnectionEvent object.
Distributed Transactions
As with pooled connections, connections made via data
source object that is implemented to work with the middle tier
infrastructure may participate in distributed transactions. This
gives an application the ability to involve data sources on
multiple servers in a single transaction.
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The classes and interfaces used for distributed transactions are:
XADataSource
XAConnection
These interfaces are used by transaction manager; an application
does not use them directly.
The XAConnection interface is derived from the
PooledConnection interface, so what applies to a pooled
connection also applies to a connection that is part of distributed
transaction. A transaction manager in the middle tier handles
everything transparently. The only change in application code is
that an application cannot do anything that would interfere with
the transaction managers handling of the transaction.
Specifically application cannot call the methods
Connection.commit or Connection.rollback and it cannot set the
connection to be in auto-commit mode.
An application does not need to do anything special to
participate in a distributed transaction. It simply creates
connections to the data sources it wants to use via the
DataSource.getConnection method, just as it normally does. The
transaction manager manages the transaction behind the scenes.
The XADataSource interface creates XAConnection objects, and
each XAConnection object creates an XAResource object that the
transaction manager uses to manage the connection.
Rowsets
The RowSet interface works with various other classes and
interfaces behind the scenes. These can be grouped into three
categories.
1. Event Notification
o RowSetListener
A RowSet object is a JavaBeans
TM
component because it has
properties and participates in the JavaBeans event notification
mechanism. The RowSetListener interface is implemented by a
component that wants to be notified about events that occur to a
particular RowSet object. Such a component registers itself as a
listener with a rowset via the RowSet.addRowSetListener
method.
o When the RowSet object changes one of its rows, changes all of
it rows, or moves its cursor, it also notifies each listener that is
registered with it. The listener reacts by carrying out its
implementation of the notification method called on it.
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o RowSetEvent
As part of its internal notification process, a RowSet object
creates an instance of RowSetEvent and passes it to the listener.
The listener can use this RowSetEvent object to find out which
rowset had the event.
2. Metadata
RowSetMetaData
This interface, derived from the ResultSetMetaData interface,
provides information about the columns in a RowSet object. An
application can use RowSetMetaData methods to find out how
many columns the rowset contains and what kind of data each
column can contain.
The RowSetMetaData interface provides methods for setting the
information about columns, but an application would not normally
use these methods. When an application calls the RowSet
method execute, the RowSet object will contain a new set of
rows, and its RowSetMetaData object will have been internally
updated to contain information about the new columns.
3. The Reader/Writer Facility
A RowSet object that implements the RowSetInternal
interface can call on the RowSetReader object associated with
it to populate itself with data. It can also call on the
RowSetWriter object associated with it to write any changes to
its rows back to the data source from which it originally got
the rows. A rowset that remains connected to its data source
does not need to use a reader and writer because it can simply
operate on the data source directly.
RowSetInternal
By implementing the RowSetInternal interface, a RowSet object
gets access to its internal state and is able to call on its reader
and writer. A rowset keeps track of the values in its current rows
and of the values that immediately preceded the current ones,
referred to as the original values. A rowset also keeps track of
(1) the parameters that have been set for its command and (2)
the connection that was passed to it, if any. A rowset uses the
RowSetInternal methods behind the scenes to get access to this
information. An application does not normally invoke these
methods directly.
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RowSetReader
A disconnected RowSet object that has implemented the
RowSetInternal interface can call on its reader (the
RowSetReader object associated with it) to populate it with data.
When an application calls the RowSet.execute method, that
method calls on the rowset's reader to do much of the work.
Implementations can vary widely, but generally a reader makes a
connection to the data source, reads data from the data source
and populates the rowset with it, and closes the connection. A
reader may also update the RowSetMetaData object for its
rowset. The rowset's internal state is also updated, either by the
reader or directly by the method RowSet.execute.
RowSetWriter
A disconnected RowSet object that has implemented the
RowSetInternal interface can call on its writer (the RowSetWriter
object associated with it) to write changes back to the underlying
data source. Implementations may vary widely, but generally, a
writer will do the following:
Make a connection to the data source
Check to see whether there is a conflict, that is, whether a
value that has been changed in the rowset has also been
changed in the data source
Write the new values to the data source if there is no conflict
Close the connection
The RowSet interface may be implemented in any number of
ways, and anyone may write an implementation. Developers are
encouraged to use their imaginations in coming up with new
ways to use rowsets.
Type III Driver WebLogic BEA
weblogic.jdbc.common.internal.ConnectionPool
Type III Driver WebLogic BEA
weblogic.jdbc.connector.internal.ConnectionPool
Type II & IV driver Oracle DB - Oracle
+ JDBC:
There are three types of statements in JDBC
Create statement : Is used to execute single SQL statements.
Prepared statement: Is used for executing parameterized
quaries. Is used to run pre-compiled SEQL Statement.
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Callable statement: Is used to execute stored procedures.
Stored Procedures: Is a group of SQL statements that perform a
logical unit and performs a particular task.
Are used to encapsulate a set operations or queries t execute on
data.
execute() returns Boolean value
executeupdate( ) returns resultset Object
executeupdate( ) returns integer value

Loading the Driver:
Class.forName(sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver);
Conn=DriverManager.getConnection(jdbc:odbc:dsn,
username, password);
( ORACLE Driver )
Class.forName(Oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver);
Conn=DriverManager.getConnection(jdbc:oracle:thin:@192.168.1
.105:1521:dbn, username, password);
Data base connection:
Public static void main(String args[]);
Connection con;
Statement st;
Resultset rs;
try { // Getting all rows from Table
Clas.forName(sun.jdbc.odbc.jdbcodbc);
Conn=DriverManager.getConnction(jdbc.odbc.dsn, username ,
password);
st = con.createstatement( );
rs = st.executestatement(SELECT * FROM mytable);
while(rs.next());
{
String s= rs.getString(1); or rs.setString(COL_A);
int i = rs. getInt(2);
Float f = rs.getfloat(3);
Process(s,i,f);
}
catch(SQLException e)
{ }
//Getting particular rows from Table
st = con.createstatement( );
rs = st.executequery(SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE COL A =
Prasad);
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while(rs.next( ));
{
String s = rs.getString(1);
Int i = rs.getint(2);
Float f = rs.getfloat(3);
Process(s,i,f);
}
Catch(SQLException e); { }
//updating a row from table.
try {
st = con.createstatement( );
int numupdated = st.executeupdate(UPDATE mytable SET COL_A
= prasad WHERE COL_B=746);
rs = st.executeupdate();
conn.close(); }
catch(SQLExceptione); { }
// Receiving rows from table
try {
st = con.preparedstatement( );
rs = st.execurtestatement(SELECT * FROM mytable SET
COL_A=?);
int colunm=1;
rs.setString(colunm,hari);
rs = st.executeQuery( );
//update rwo from table
st = con.createstatement( );
int numupdated = st.executeupdate(UPDATE mytable SET COL_A
=? WHERE COL_B=?);
int column=1;
rs.setString(colunm,Prasad);
int column=2;
rs.setString(column,746);
int numupdated = st.executeupdate( );
} catch(SqlException e); { }
//callable statement
try {
cst = con.preparecall({call add1(??,??)});
cst.setint(1,a);
cst.setint(2,b);
cst.registerOurPrameter(1,Types.INTEGER);
cst.executeQuery( );
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System.out.println(rs.getString( )); }
+ Connection Pool with webLogic server:
You can connect the database in your app using:
Class.forName(weblogic.jdbc.oci.Driver).newInstance();
Java.sql.Connection conn =
Driver.connect(jdbc:weblogic:Oracle:dbn, username,
password);
(Or)
java.util.Properties prop = new java.util.Properties();
prop.put(user, Krishna);
prop.put(password,Kishore);
java.sql.Driver d =
(java.sql.Driver)Class.forName(weblogic.jdbc.oci.Driver).new
Instance();
java.sql.Connection conn =
d.connect(jdbc:weblogic:Oracle:dbn, prop);
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
java.sql.Connection con=null;
java.sql.satement st =null;
try {
context ctx=null;
Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
ht.put(Context.INTIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,weblogic:jnd
i:WLInitialContextFACTORY);
ht.put(Context_PROVIDER_URL,t3://Localhost:7001);
//get a context from JNDI lookup
ctx = newIntialContext():
java.sql.Datasourse ds
=(java.sql.DataSource)ctx.lookup(OraclegbJNDI);
con =ds.getConnection();
System.out.Println(Making Connection);
st = conn.createstatement();
} finally {
try {
if(stmt !=null)
stmt.close( );
if(stmt !=null)
con.close( );
}
}
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}
+ What is a transaction?
transaction is collection of logical operation that perform a task
Transaction should ACID properties.
A for Automicity
C for Consistency
I for Isolation
D for Durability
A transaction can be termed as any operation such as storing,
retrieving, updating or deleting records in the table that hits
the database.
+ What is the purpose of setAutoCommit()?
It is set as ConnectionObject.setAutoComit(); after any
updates through the program cannot be effected to the
database.We have commit the transctions .For this puprpose
we can set AutoCommit flag to Connection Object.
What are the three statements in JDBC & differences between
them which is used to run simple sql statements like select
and update
1. PrepareStatment is used to run Pre compiled sql.
2. CallableStatement is used to execute the stored procedures.
+ What is stored procedure. How do you create stored
procedure ?
Stored procedures is a group of SQL statements that performs
a logical unit and performs a particular task.
Stored procedures are used to encapsulate a set of operations
or queries to execute on data.
Stored Procedure is a stored program in database, PL/SQL
program is a Stored Procedure. Stored Procedures can be
called from java by CallableStatement.
A precompiled collection of SQL statements stored under a
name and processed as a unit.
Stored procedures can:
1. Accept input parameters and return multiple values in the
form of output parameters to the calling procedure or batch.
2. Contain programming statements that perform operations in
the database, including calling other procedures.
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3. Return a status value to a calling procedure or batch to
indicate success or failure (and the reason for failure).
+ What are batch updates?
Batch Update facility allows multiple update operations to be
submitted to a database for processing at once. Using batch
updates will improve the performance.
+ What is the difference between Resultset and
Rowset?
A RowSet is a disconnected, serializable version of a JDBC
ResultSet.
The RowSet is different than other JDBC interfaces in that you
can write a RowSet to be vendor neutral. A third party could
write a RowSet implementation that could be used with any
JDBC-compliant database. The standard implementation
supplied by Sun uses a ResultSet to read the rows from a
database and then stores those rows as Row objects in a
Vector inside the RowSet. In fact, a RowSet implementation
could be written to get its data from any source. The only
requirement is that the RowSet acts as if it was a ResultSet. Of
course, there is no reason that a vendor couldn't write a
RowSet implementation that is vendor specific.
The standard implementations have been designed to provide
a fairly good range of functionality.
The implementations provided are:
CachedRowSetImpl - This is the implementation of the
RowSet that is closest to the definition of RowSet functionality
that we discussed earlier. There are two ways to load this
RowSet. The execute () method will load the RowSet using a
Connection object. The populate() method will load the RowSet
from a previously loaded ResultSet.
WebRowSetImpl - This is very similar to the
CachedRowSetImpl (it is a child class) but it also includes
methods for converting the rows into an XML document and
loading the RowSet with an XML document. The XML document
can come from any Stream or Reader/Writer object. This could
be especially useful for Web Services.
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JdbcRowSetImpl - This is a different style of implementation
that is probably less useful in normal circumstances. The
purpose of this RowSet is to make a ResultSet look like a
JavaBean. It is not serializable and it must maintain a
connection to the database.
The remaining two implementations are used with the first
three implementations:
FilteredRowSetImpl - This is used to filter data from an
existing RowSet. The filter will skip records that don't match
the criteria specified in the filter when a next() is used on the
RowSet.
JoinRowSetImpl - This is used to simulate a SQL join
command between two or more RowSet objects.
+ What are the steps for connecting to the database
using JDBC?
Using DriverManager:
Load the driver class using
class.forName(driverclass) and class.forName() loads the
driver class and passes the control to DriverManager class
DriverManager.getConnection() creates the
connection to the databse
Using DataSource:
1. DataSource is used instead of DriverManager in Distributed
Environment with the help of JNDI.
2. Use JNDI to lookup the DataSource from Naming service
server.
3. DataSource.getConnection method will return Connection
object to the database.
+ What is Connection Pooling?
Connection pooling is a cache of data base connections that is
maintained in memory , so that the connections may be reuse.
Connection pooling is a place where a set of connections are
kept and are used by the different programers with out
creating conncections to the database(it means there is a
ready made connection available for the programmers where
he can use). After using the connection he can send back that
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connection to the connection pool. Number of connections in
connection pool may vary.
+ How do you implement Connection Pooling?
Connection Pooling can be implemented by the following way.
A javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource interface that
serves as a resource manager connection factory for pooled
java.sql.Connection objects.
Each database vendors provide the implementation for
that interface.
For example, the oracle vendors implementation is as follows:
oracle.jdbc.pool.oracleConnectionPoolDataSource Class.
A javax.sql.PooledConnection interface encapsulates the
physical connection for the database.
Again, the vendor provides the implementation.
+ What Class.forName() method will do?
Class.forName() is used to load the Driver class which is used
to connect the application with Database. Here Driver class is a
Java class provided by Database vendor.
+ What is the difference between JDBC 1.0 and JDBC
2.0?
The JDBC 2.0 API includes many new features in the java.sql
package as well as the new Standard Extension package,
javax.sql. This new JDBC API moves Java applications into the
world of heavy-duty database computing. New features in the
java.sql package include support for SQL3 data types,
scrollable result sets, programmatic updates, and batch
updates. The new JDBC Standard Extension API, an integral
part of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology, allows you to
write distributed transactions that use connection pooling, and
it also makes it possible to connect to virtually any tabular
data source, including files and spread sheets.
The JDBC 2.0 API includes many new features like
1. Scrollable result sets
2. Batch updates
3. Connection Pooling
4. Distributed transactions
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5. set autocomit ()
+ What is JDBC?
JDBC is a layer of abstraction that allows users to choose
between databases. It allows you to change to a different
database engine and to write to a single API. JDBC allows you
to write database applications in Java without having to
concern yourself with the underlying details of a particular
database.
+ What are the two major components of JDBC?
One implementation interface for database manufacturers, the
other implementation interface for application and applet
writers.
+ What is JDBC Driver interface?
The JDBC Driver interface provides vendor-specific
implementations of the abstract classes provided by the JDBC
API. Each vendors driver must provide implementations of the
java.sql.Connection, Statement, PreparedStatement,
CallableStatement, ResultSet and Driver.
+ What are the common tasks of JDBC?
Create an instance of a JDBC driver or load JDBC drivers
through jdbc.drivers
Register a driver
Specify a database
Open a database connection
Submit a query
Receive results
+ What packages are used by JDBC?
There are 8 packages:
java.sql.Driver,
Connection,
Statement,
PreparedStatement,
CallableStatement,
ResultSet,
ResultSetMetaData,
DatabaseMetaData.
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+ What are the flow statements of JDBC?
A URL string -->getConnection-->DriverManager-->Driver--
>Connection-->Statement-->executeQuery-->ResultSet.
1. Register the Driver
2. load the Driver
3. get the connection
4. create the statement
5. Execute the query
6. fetch the results with ResultSet
+ What are the steps involved in establishing a
connection?
This involves two steps:
loading the driver.
making the connection.
+ How can you load the drivers?
Loading the driver or drivers you want to use is very simple
and involves just one line of code. If, for example, you want to
use the JDBC-ODBC Bridge driver, the following code will load
it:
Example:
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
Your driver documentation will give you the class name to use.
For instance, if the class name is jdbc.DriverXYZ , you would
load the driver with the following line of code:
Example:
Class.forName("jdbc.DriverXYZ");
+ What Class.forName will do while loading drivers?
It is used to create an instance of a driver and register it
with the DriverManager. When you have loaded a driver, it
is available for making a connection with a DBMS.
+ How can you make the connection?
In establishing a connection is to have the appropriate driver
connect to the DBMS. The following line of code illustrates the
general idea:
Example:
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String url = "jdbc:odbc:Fred";
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url,
"Fernanda", "J8");
+ How can you create JDBC statements?
A Statement object is what sends your SQL statement to the
DBMS. You simply create a Statement object and then execute
it, supplying the appropriate execute method with the SQL
statement you want to send. For a SELECT statement, the
method to use is executeQuery. For statements that create or
modify tables, the method to use is executeUpdate.
Example:
It takes an instance of an active connection to create a
Statement object. In the following example, we use our
Connection object con to create the Statement object stmt:
Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
+ How can you retrieve data from the ResultSet?
First JDBC returns results in a ResultSet object, so we need to
declare an instance of the class ResultSet to hold our results.
The following code demonstrates declaring the ResultSet
object rs.
Example:
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT COF_NAME, PRICE
FROM COFFEES");
Second:
String s = rs.getString("COF_NAME");
The method getString is invoked on the ResultSet object rs ,
so getString will retrieve (get) the value stored in the column
COF_NAME in the current row of rs
+ What are the different types of Statements?
1) Create Statement: For Simple statement
used for static query.
2) Prepared Statement: For a runtime /
dynamic query. Where String is a dynamic query you want
to execute
3) Callable Statement (Use
prepareCall): //For Stored procedure Callable statement,
where sql is stored procedure.
try {
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Connection conn =
DriverManager.getConnection("URL",'USER"."PWD");
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
PreparedStatement pstmt = conn.prepareStatement(String
sql);
CallableStatement cstmt = conn.prepareCall(String sql);
} catch (SQLException ee) {
ee.printStackTrace();
}
Don't forget all the above statements will throw the
SQLException, so we need to use try catch for the same to
handle the exception.
+ How can you use PreparedStatement?
This special type of statement is derived from the more
general class, Statement. If you want to execute a Statement
object many times, it will normally reduce execution time to
use a PreparedStatement object instead. The advantage to this
is that in most cases, this SQL statement will be sent to the
DBMS right away, where it will be compiled. As a result, the
PreparedStatement object contains not just an SQL statement,
but an SQL statement that has been precompiled. This means
that when the PreparedStatement is executed, the DBMS can
just run the PreparedStatement 's SQL statement without
having to compile it first.
Example:
PreparedStatement updateSales =
con.prepareStatement("UPDATE COFFEES SET SALES = ?
WHERE COF_NAME LIKE ?");
+ How to call a Stored Procedure from JDBC?
The first step is to create a CallableStatement object. As with
Statement an and PreparedStatement objects, this is done
with an open Connection object. A CallableStatement object
contains a call to a stored procedure;
Example:
CallableStatement cs = con.prepareCall("{call
SHOW_SUPPLIERS}");
ResultSet rs = cs.executeQuery();
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+ How to Retrieve Warnings?
SQLWarning objects are a subclass of SQLException that deal
with database access warnings. Warnings do not stop the
execution of an application, as exceptions do; they simply alert
the user that something did not happen as planned. A warning
can be reported on a Connection object, a Statement object
(including PreparedStatement and CallableStatement objects),
or a ResultSet object. Each of these classes has a getWarnings
method, which you must invoke in order to see the first
warning reported on the calling object
Example:
SQLWarning warning = stmt.getWarnings();
if (warning != null) {
while (warning != null) {
System.out.println("Message: " +
warning.getMessage());
System.out.println("SQLState: " +
warning.getSQLState());
System.out.print("Vendor error code: ");
System.out.println(warning.getErrorCode());
warning = warning.getNextWarning();
}
}
+ How to Make Updates to Updatable Result Sets?
Another new feature in the JDBC 2.0 API is the ability to
update rows in a result set using methods in the Java
programming language rather than having to send an SQL
command. But before you can take advantage of this
capability, you need to create a ResultSet object that is
updatable. In order to do this, you supply the ResultSet
constant CONCUR_UPDATABLE to the createStatement
method.
Example:
Connection con =
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mySubprotocol:mySubNa
me");
Statement stmt =
con.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE,
ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
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ResultSet uprs = ("SELECT COF_NAME, PRICE FROM
COFFEES");
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Servlets
+ Web Components
Servlets
Java Server Pages (JSP)
Tags and Tag Libraries
+ Whats a Servlet?
Javas answer to CGI programming
Program runs on Web server and builds pages on the fly
+ When would you use servlets?
Data changes frequently e.g. weather-reports
Page uses information from databases e.g. on-line stores
Page is based on user-submitted data e.g search engines
+ Servlet Class Hierarchy
javax.servlet.Servlet
Defines methods that all servlets must implement
init()
service()
destroy()
javax.servlet.GenericServlet
Defines a generic, protocol-independent servlet
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet
To write an HTTP servlet for use on the Web
doGet()
doPost()
javax.servlet.ServletConfig
A servlet configuration object
Passes information to a servlet during initialization
Servlet.getServletConfig()
javax.servlet.ServletContext
To communicate with the servlet container
Contained within the ServletConfig object
ServletConfig.getServletContext()
javax.servlet.ServletRequest
Provides client request information to a servlet
javax.servlet.ServletResponse
Sending a response to the client
+ Basic Servlet Structure
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import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class Hello World extends HttpServlet {
// Handle get request
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException,
IOException {
// request access incoming HTTP headers and HTML
form data
// response - specify the HTTP response line and headers
// (e.g. specifying the content type, setting cookies).
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); //out - send
content to browser
out.println("Hello World");
}
}
+ Servlet Life Cycle
Loading and Instantiation
Initialization
Request Handling
End of Service
+ Session Tracking
Typical scenario shopping cart in online store
Necessary because HTTP is a "stateless" protocol
Session Tracking API allows you to
look up session object associated with current request
create a new session object when necessary
look up information associated with a session
store information in a session
discard completed or abandoned sessions
+ Session Tracking API - I
Looking up a session object
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
Pass true to create a new session if one does not exist
Associating information with session
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session.setAttribute(user,request.getParameter(name))
Session attributes can be of any type
Looking up session information
String name = (String) session.getAttribute(user)
+ Session Tracking API - II
getId: the unique identifier generated for the session
isNew: true if the client (browser) has never seen the
session
getCreationTime: time in milliseconds since session
was made
getLastAccessedTime: time in milliseconds since the
session was last sent from client
getMaxInactiveInterval: # of seconds session should
go without access before being invalidated. negative value
indicates that session should never timeout
Javax.Servlet Interface Classes
Servlet Genericservlet
ServletRequest ServletInputStream
ServletResponce ServletOutputStream
ServletConfig ServletException
ServletContext UnavailableException
SingleThreadModel -
Javax.Servlet.Http Classes
HttpServletRequest Cookie
HttpServletResponse HttpServlet
HttpSession HttpSessionBindingEvent
HttpSessionContext HttpUtils
HttpSessionBindingListener -
Exceptions
ServletException
UnavailableException
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Servlets
+ What is the servlet?
Servlets are modules that extend request/response-oriented
servers, such as Java-enabled web servers. For example, a
servlet may be responsible for taking data in an HTML order-
entry form and applying the business logic used to update a
company's order database.
- Servlets are used to enhance and extend the functionality of
Webserver.
- Servlets handles Java and HTML separately.
+ What are the uses of Servlets?
A servlet can handle multiple requests concurrently, and can
synchronize requests. This allows servlets to support systems
such as on-line conferencing. Servlets can forward requests to
other servers and servlets. Thus servlets can be used to
balance load among several servers that mirror the same
content, and to partition a single logical service over several
servers, according to task.
+ What are th characters of Servlet?
As Servlet are written in java, they can make use of extensive
power of the JAVA API,such as networking and URL
access,multithreading,databaseconnectivity,RMI object
serialization.
Efficient: The initilazation code for a servlet is executed only
once, when the servlet is executed for the first time.
Robest: provide all the powerfull features of JAVA, such as
Exception handling and garbage collection.
Portable: This enables easy portability across Web Servers.
Persistance: Increase the performance of the system by
executing features data access.

+ What is the difference between JSP and SERVLETS
Servlets: servlet tieup files to independitently handle the
static presentation logic and dynamic business logic , due to
this a changes made to any file requires recompilation of the
servlet.
- The servlet is Pre-Compile.
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JSP: Facilities segregation of work profiles to Web-Developer
and Web-Designer, Automatically incorporates changes made
to any file (PL & BL) , no need to recompile. Web-Developer
write the code for Bussiness logic whereas Web-Designer
designs the layout for the WebPage by HTML & JSP.
- The JSP is Post-Compile.
+ What are the advantages using servlets than using CGI?
Servlets provide a way to generate dynamic documents that is
both easier to write and faster to run. It is efficient,
convenient, powerful, portable, secure and inexpensive.
Servlets also address the problem of doing server-side
programming with platform-specific APIs. They are developed
with Java Servlet API, a standard Java extension.
+ What is the difference between servlets and applets?
Servlets are to servers. Applets are to browsers. Unlike
applets, however, servlets have no graphical user interface.
+ What is the difference between GenericServlet and
HttpServlet?
GenericServlet is for servlets that might not use HTTP, like
for instance FTP service.As of only Http is implemented
completely in HttpServlet. The GenericServlet has a service()
method that gets called when a client request is made. This
means that it gets called by both incoming requests and the
HTTP requests are given to the servlet as they are.
GenericServlet belongs to javax.servlet package
GenericServlet is an abstract class which extends Object and
implements Servlet, ServletConfig and java.io.Serializable
interfaces.
The direct subclass to GenericServlet is HttpServlet.It is a
protocol-independent servlet
+ What are the differences between GET and POST service
methods?
Get Method: Uses Query String to send additional information
to the server.
- Query String is displayed on the client Browser.
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Query String: The additional sequence of characters that are
appended to the URL ia called Query String. The length of the
Query string is limited to 255 characters.
- The amount of information you can send back using a GET is
restricted as URLs can only be 1024 characters.
Post Method: The Post Method sends the Data as packets
through a separate socket connection. The complete
transaction is invisible to the client. The post method is slower
compared to the Get method because Data is sent to the
server as separate packates.
- You can send much more information to the server this way -
and it's not restricted to textual data either. It is possible to
send files and even binary data such as serialized Java objects!
+ What is the servlet life cycle?
In Servlet life cycles are,
init(), services(), destory().
Init(): Is called by the Servlet container after the servlet has
ben Instantiated.
- Contains all information code for servlet and is invoked when
the servlet is first loaded.
- The init() does not require any argument , returns a void and
throws Servlet Exception.
- If init() executed at the time of servlet class loading.And
init() executed only for first user.
- You can Override this method to write initialization code that
needs to run only once, such as loading a driver , initializing
values and soon, Inother case you can leave normally blank.
Public void init(ServletConfig Config) throws ServletException
Service(): is called by the Servlet container after the init
method to allow the servlet to respond to a request.
- Receives the request from the client and identifies the type
of request and deligates them to doGet() or doPost() for
processing.
Public void service(ServletRequest request,ServletResponce
response) throws ServletException, IOException
Destroy(): The Servlet Container calls the destroy() before
removing a Servlet Instance from Sevice.
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- Excutes only once when the Servlet is removed from Server.
Public void destroy()
If services() are both for get and post methods.
- So if u want to use post method in html page,we use
doPost() or services() in servlet class.
- if want to use get methods in html page,we can use doGet()
or services() in servlet calss.
- Finally destory() is used to free the object.
+ What is the difference between ServletContext and
ServletConfig?
Both are interfaces.
Servlet Config(): The servlet engine implements the
ServletConfig interface in order to pass configuration
information to a servlet. The server passes an object that
implements the ServletConfig interface to the servlet's init()
method.
A ServletConfig object passes configuration information from
the server to a servlet. ServletConfig also includes
ServletContext object.
getParameter(), getServletContext(), getServletConfig(),
GetServletName()
Servlet Context(): The ServletContext interface provides
information to servlets regarding the environment in which
they are running. It also provides standard way for servlets to
write events to a log file.
ServletContext defines methods that allow a servlet to interact
with the host server. This includes reading server-specific
attributes, finding information about particular files located on
the server, and writing to the server log files. I f there are
several virtual servers running, each one may return a
different ServletContext.
getMIMEType(), getResourse(),
getContext(),getServerInfo(),getServletContetName()
+ Can I invoke a JSP error page from a servlet?
Yes, you can invoke the JSP error page and pass the exception
object to it from within a servlet. The trick is to create a
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request dispatcher for the JSP error page, and pass the
exception object as a javax.servlet.jsp.jspException request
attribute. However, note that you can do this from only within
controller servlets.
+ If your servlet opens an OutputStream or PrintWriter,
the JSP engine will throw the following translation
error:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot forward as
OutputStream or Writer has already been obtained
+ Can I just abort processing a JSP?
Yes.Because your JSP is just a servlet method,you can just put
(whereever necessary) a <% return; %>
+ What is a better approach for enabling thread-safe
servlets and JSPs? SingleThreadModel Interface or
Synchronization?
Although the SingleThreadModel technique is easy to use, and
works well for low volume sites, it does not scale well. If you
anticipate your users to increase in the future, you may be
better off implementing explicit synchronization for your
shared data. The key however, is to effectively minimize the
amount of code that is synchronzied so that you take
maximum advantage of multithreading.
Also, note that SingleThreadModel is pretty resource intensive
from the server's perspective. The most serious issue however
is when the number of concurrent requests exhaust the servlet
instance pool. In that case, all the unserviced requests are
queued until something becomes free - which results in poor
performance. Since the usage is non-deterministic, it may not
help much even if you did add more memory and increased
the size of the instance pool.
+ If you want a servlet to take the same action for both
GET and POST request, what should you do?
Simply have doGet call doPost, or vice versa.
+ Which code line must be set before any of the lines that
use the PrintWriter?
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setContentType() method must be set before transmitting the
actual document.
+ How HTTP Servlet handles client requests?
An HTTP Servlet handles client requests through its service
method. The service method supports standard HTTP client
requests by dispatching each request to a method designed to
handle that request.
+ What is the Servlet Interface?
The central abstraction in the Servlet API is the Servlet
interface. All servlets implement this interface, either directly
or, more commonly, by extending a class that implements it
such as HttpServlet.
Servlets-->Generic Servlet-->HttpServlet-->MyServlet.
The Servlet interface declares, but does not implement,
methods that manage the servlet and its communications with
clients. Servlet writers provide some or all of these methods
when developing a servlet.
+ When a servlet accepts a call from a client, it receives
two objects. What are they?
ServeltRequest: which encapsulates the communication from
the client to the server.
ServletResponse: which encapsulates the communication
from the servlet back to the Client.
ServletRequest and ServletResponse are interfaces defined by
the javax.servlet package.
+ What information that the ServletRequest interface
allows the servlet access to?
Information such as the names of the parameters passed in by
the client, the protocol (scheme) being used by the client, and
the names of the remote host that made the request and the
server that received it. The input stream,
ServletInputStream.Servlets use the input stream to get data
from clients that use application protocols such as the HTTP
POST and PUT methods.
+ What information that the ServletResponse interface
gives the servlet methods for replying to the client?
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It Allows the servlet to set the content length and MIME type
of the reply. Provides an output stream, ServletOutputStream
and a Writer through which the servlet can send the reply
data.
+ Difference between single thread and multi thread
model servlet
A servlet that implements SingleThreadModel means that for
every request, a single servlet instance is created. This is not a
very scalable solution as most web servers handle multitudes
of requests. A multi-threaded servlet means that one servlet is
capable of handling many requests which is the way most
servlets should be implemented.
a. A single thread model for servlets is generally used to
protect sensitive data (bank account operations).
b. Single thread model means instance of the servlet gets
created for each request recieved. Its not thread safe
whereas in multi threaded only single instance of the servlet
exists for what ever # of requests recieved. Its thread safe
and is taken care by the servlet container.
c. A servlet that implements SingleThreadModel means that for
every request, a single servlet instance is created. This is
not a very scalable solution as most web servers handle
multitudes of requests. A multi-threaded servlet means that
one servlet is capable of handling many requests which is
the way most servlets should be implemented.
A single thread model for servlets is generally used to protect
sensitive data (bank account operations).
+ What is servlet context and what it takes actually as
parameters?
Servlet context is an object which is created as soon as the
Servlet gets initialized.Servlet context object is contained in
Servlet Config. With the context object u can get access to
specific resource (like file) in the server and pass it as a URL to
be displayed as a next screen with the help of
RequestDispatcher
Example:
ServletContext app = getServletContext();
RequestDispatcher disp;
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if(b==true)
disp = app.getRequestDispatcher
("jsp/login/updatepassword.jsp");
else
disp = app.getRequestDispatcher
("jsp/login/error.jsp");
this code will take user to the screen depending upon the
value of b. in ServletContext u can also get or set some
variables which u would like to retreive in next screen.
Example:
context.setAttribute("supportAddress", "temp@temp.com");
Better yet, you could use the web.xml context-param element
to designate the address, then read it with the
getInitParameter method of ServletContext.
+ Can we call destroy() method on servlets from service
method?
destroy() is a servlet life-cycle method called by servlet
container to kill the instance of the servlet. "Yes". You can call
destroy() from within the service(). It will do whatever logic
you have in destroy() (cleanup, remove attributes, etc.) but it
won't "unload" the servlet instance itself. That can only be
done by the container
+ What is the use of ServletConfig and ServletContext..?
An interface that describes the configuration parameters for a
servlet. This is passed to the servlet when the web server calls
its init() method. Note that the servlet should save the
reference to the ServletConfig object, and define a
getServletConfig() method to return it when asked. This
interface defines how to get the initialization parameters for
the servlet and the context under which the servlet is running.
An interface that describes how a servlet can get information
about the server in which it is running. It can be retrieved via
the getServletContext() method of the ServletConfig object.
+ What is difference between forward() and
sendRedirect()..? Which one is faster then other and
which works on server?
Forward(): javax.Servlet.RequestDispatcher interface.
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- RequestDispatcher.forward() works on the Server.
- The forward() works inside the WebContainer.
- The forward() restricts you to redirect only to a resource in
the same web-Application.
- After executing the forward(), the control will return back to
the same method from where the forward method was called.
- the forward() will redirect in the application server itself, it
doesn come back to the client.
- The forward() is faster than Sendredirect() .
To use the forward() of the requestDispatcher interface, the
first thing to do is to obtain RequestDispatcher Object. The
Servlet technology provides in three ways.
2. By using the getRequestDispatcher() of the
javax.Servlet.ServletContext interface , passing a String
containing the path of the other resources, path is relative
to the root of the ServletContext.
RequestDispatcher
rd=request.getRequestDispatcher(secondServlet);
Rd.forward(request, response);
3. getRequestDispatcher() of the javax.Servlet.Request
interface , the path is relative to current HtpRequest.
RequestDispatcher
rd=getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(servlet/seco
ndServlet);
Rd.forward(request, response);
4. By using the getNameDispatcher() of the
javax.Servlet.ServletContext interface.
RequestDispatcher
rd=getServletContext().getNameDispatcher(secondServlet
);
Rd.forward(request, response);
Sendredirect(): javax.Servlet.Http.HttpServletResponce
interface
- RequestDispatcher.SendRedirect() works on the browser.
- The SendRedirect() allows you to redirect trip to the Client.
- The SendRedirect() allows you to redirect to any URL.
- After executing the SendRedirect() the control will not return
back to same method.
- The Client receives the Http response code 302 indicating
that temporarly the client is being redirected to the specified
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location , if the specified location is relative , this method
converts it into an absolute URL before redirecting.
- The SendRedirect() will come to the Client and go back,.. ie
URL appending will happen.
Response. SendRedirect( absolute path);
Absolutepath other than application, relative path - same
application.
When you invoke a forward request, the request is sent to
another resource on the server, without the client being
informed that a different resource is going to process the
request. This process occurs completely with in the web
container. When a sendRedirtect method is invoked, it causes
the web container to return to the browser indicating that a
new URL should be requested. Because the browser issues a
completely new request any object that are stored as request
attributes before the redirect occurs will be lost. This extra
round trip a redirect is slower than forward.
+ do we have a constructor in servlet ? can we explictly
provide a constructor in servlet programme as in java
program ?
We can have a constructor in servlet .
Session: A session is a group of activities that are performed
by a user while accesing a particular website.
Session Tracking: The process of keeping track of settings
across session is called session tracking.
Hidden Form Fields: Used to keep track of users by placing
hidden fields in the form.
- The values that have been entered in these fields are sent to
the server when the user submits the Form.
URL-rewriting: this is a technique by which the URL is
modified to include the session ID of a particular user and is
sent back to the Client.
- The session Id is used by the client for subsequent
transactions with the server.
Cookies: Cookies are small text files that are used by a
webserver to keep track the Users.
A cookie is created by the server and send back to the client ,
the value is in the form of Key-value pairs. Aclient can accept
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20 cookies per host and the size of each cookie can be
maximum of 4 bytes each.
HttpSession: Every user who logs on to the website is
autometacally associated with an HttpSession Object.
- The Servlet can use this Object to store information about
the users Session.
- HttpSession Object enables the user to maintain two types of
Data.
- ie State and Application.
+ How to communicate between two servlets?
Two ways:
a. Forward or redirect from one Servlet to another.
b. Load the Servlet from ServletContext and access methods.
+ How to get one Servlet's Context Information in another
Servlet?
Access or load the Servlet from the Servlet Context and access
the Context Information
+ The following code snippet demonstrates the invocation
of a JSP error page from within a controller servlet:
protected void sendErrorRedirect(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response, String errorPageURL,
Throwable e) throws ServletException, IOException {
request.setAttribute ("javax.servlet.jsp.jspException", e);
getServletConfig().getServletContext().
getRequestDispatcher(errorPageURL).forward(request,
response);
}
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) {
try {
// do something
} catch (Exception ex) {
try {
sendErrorRedirect(request,response,"/jsp/MyErrorPage.
jsp", ex);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
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}
}
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JSP (JavaServer Pages)
+ Why JSP Technology?
Servlets are good at running logic
Not so good at producing large amounts of output
out.write() is ugly
JSP pages are great at producing lots of textual output
Not so good at lots of logic
<% %> is ugly
+ How does it Work?
JSP page
Mixture of text, Script and directives
Text could be text/ html, text/ xml or text/ plain
JSP engine
Compiles page to servlet
Executes servlets service() method
Sends text back to caller
Page is
Compiled once
Executed many times
+ Anatomy of a JSP
<%@ page language=java contentType=text/html %>
<html>
<body bgcolor=white>
<jsp:useBean id=greeting
class=com.pramati.jsp.beans.GreetingBean>
<jsp:setProperty name=greeting property=*/>
</jsp:userBean>
The following information was saved:
User Name:
<jsp:getProperty name=greeting
property=userName/>
Welcome!
</body>
</html>
+ JSP Elements
Directive Elements
Information about the page
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Remains same between requests
E.g., scripting language used
Action Elements:
Take action based on info required at request-time
Standard
Custom (Tags and Tag Libraries)
Scripting Elements
Add pieces of code to generate output based on conditions
+ Directives
Global information used by the JSP engine
Of form <%@ directive attr_ list %>
Or <jsp: directive. directive attr_ list />
Directive could be
Page
Include
Taglib
E. g.,
<%@ page info= written by DevelopMentor %>
<jsp: directive. page import= java. sql.* />
<%@ include file =\ somefile. txt %>
<%@ taglib uri = tags prefix= foo %>
+ Actions Within a JSP Page
Specifies an action to be carried out by the JSP engine
Standard or custom
Standard must be implemented by all engines
Custom defined in tag libraries
Standard actions scoped by jsp namespace
Have name and attributes
<jsp: useBean id= clock class= java.util.Date />
<ul> The current date at the server is:
<li> Date: <jsp: getProperty name=clock
property=date />
<li> Month: <jsp: getProperty name=clock
property=month />
</ul>
+ Standard JSP Actions:
jsp:useBean
jsp:getProperty
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jsp:setProperty
jsp:include
jsp:forward
jsp:param
jsp:plugin
Scriptlets
Of form <% /* code goes here*/ %>
Gets copied into _ jspService method of generated servlet
Any valid Java code can go here
Code: Output
<% int j; %> <value> 0</ value>
<% for (j = 0; j < 3; j++) {%> <value> 1</ value>
<value> <value> 2</ value>
<% out. write(""+ j); %>
</ value><% } %>
Declarations (<%! %>)
Used to declare class scope variables or methods
<%! int j = 0; %>
Gets declared at class- level scope in the generated
servlet
public class SomeJSP extends HttpServlet implements
HttpJspPage {

int j = 0;
void _jspService() {}
}
+ JSP to Servlet Translation
<%@ page import="javax.ejb.*,javax.naming.*,java.rmi.*
,java.util.*" %>
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Hello.jsp</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<% String checking = null;
String name = null;
checking = request.getParameter("catch");
if (checking != null) {
name = request.getParameter("name");%>
<b> Hello <%=name%>
<% }
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%>
<FORM METHOD='POST' action="Hello.jsp">
<table width="500" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"
border="0">
<caption>Enter your name</caption>
<tr>
<td><b>Name</b></td>
<td><INPUT size="20" maxlength="20"
TYPE="text" NAME="name"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<INPUT TYPE='SUBMIT' NAME='Submit'
VALUE='Submit'>
<INPUT TYPE='hidden' NAME='catch' VALUE='yes'>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
+ Generated Servlet
public void _jspService(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException
,IOException {
out.write("<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Hello.jsp</TITLE></H
EAD><BODY>" );
String checking = null;
String name = null;
checking = request.getParameter("catch");
if (checking != null) {
name = request.getParameter("name");
out.write("\r\n\t\t<b> Hello " );
out.print(name);
out.write("\r\n\t\t" );
}
out.write("\r\n\t\t<FORM METHOD='POST' action="
+"\"Hello.jsp\">\r\n\t\t\t<table width=\"500\"
cell..
}
}
+ Tags & Tag Libraries
What Is a Tag Library?
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JSP technology has a set of pre- defined tags
<jsp: useBean />
These are HTML like but
have limited functionality
Can define new tags
Look like HTML
Can be used by page authors
Java code is executed when tag is encountered
Allow us to keep Java code off the page
Better separation of content and logic
May Have Tags To
Process an SQL command
Parse XML and output HTML
Automatically call into an EJB component (EJB
technology- based component)
Get called on every request to initialize script variables
Iterate over a ResultSet and display the output in an
HTML table
Primary Tag Classes (javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag)
Example:
<%@ taglib uri=/WEB-INF/mylib.tld prefix=test %>
<html>
<body bgcolor=white>
<test:hello name=Robert />
</body>
</html>
public class HelloTag extends TagSupport {
private String name = World;
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Interface
TagSupport
Class
BodyTag
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BodyTagSupport
class
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public void setName(String name) { this.name =
name; }
public int doEndTag()
{ pageContext.getOut().println(Hello + name); }
}
mylib.tld
<taglib>
<tag>
<name>hello</name>
<tagclass>com.pramati.HelloTag</tagclass>
<bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>
<attribute><name>name</name></attribute>
</tag>
</taglib>
How Tag Handler methods are invoked:
<prefix:tagName
attr1=value1 ------------ setAttr1(value1)
attr2=value2 ------------ setAttr2(value2)
>------------ doStartTag()
This tags's body
</ prefix:tagName> ------------ doEndTag()
Implementation of JSP page will use the tag handler for
each action on page.
+ Summary
The JSP specification is a powerful system for creating
structured web content.
JSP technology allows non- programmers to develop
dynamic web pages.
JSP technology allows collaboration between
programmers and page designers when building web
applications.
JSP technology uses the Java programming language as
the script language.
The generated servlet can be managed by directives.
JSP components can be used as the view in the MVC
architecture.
Authors using JSP technology are not necessarily
programmers using Java technology.
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Want to keep Java code off a JSP Page.
Custom actions (tag libraries) allow the use of elements
as a replacement for Java code.
+ What is JSP- JavaServer Pages?
JavaServer Pages. A server-side technology, JavaServer pages
are an extension to the Java servlet technology that was
developed by Sun. JSPs have dynamic scripting capability that
works in tandem with HTML code, separating the page logic
from the static elements -- the actual design and display of the
page. Embedded in the HTML page, the Java source code and
its extensions help make the HTML more functional, being
used in dynamic database queries, for example. JSPs are not
restricted to any specific platform or server.
Jsp contains both static and dynamic resources at run time.Jsp
extends web server functionalities.
+ What are advantages of JSP?
Whenever there is a change in the code, we dont have to
recompile the jsp. it automatically does the compilation. by
using custom tags and tag libraries the length of the java code
is reduced.
+ What is the difference between include directive &
jsp:include action?
include directive(): if the file includes static text if the file is
rarely changed (the JSP engine may not recompile the JSP if
this type of included file is modified). If you have a common
code snippet that you can reuse across multiple pages (e.g.
headers and footers).
jsp:include: for content that changes at runtime .to select
which content to render at runtime (because the page and src
attributes can take runtime expressions) for files that change
often JSP:includenull.
+ What are Custom tags. Why do you need Custom tags.
How do you create Custom tag?
5. Custom tags are those which are user defined.
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6. Inorder to separate the presentation logic in a separate
class rather than keeping in jsp page we can use custom
tags.
7. Step 1: Build a class that implements the
javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag interface as follows. Compile it
and place it under the web-inf/classes directory (in the
appropriate package structure).
package examples;
import java.io.*; //// THIS PROGRAM IS EVERY TIME I
MEAN WHEN U REFRESH THAT PARTICULAR CURRENT
DATE THIS CUSTOM TAG WILL DISPLAY
import javax.servlet.jsp.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
public class ShowDateTag implements Tag {
private PageContext pageContext;
private Tag parent;
public int doStartTag() throws JspException {
return SKIP_BODY;
}
public int doEndTag() throws JspException {
try {
pageContext.getOut().write("" + new
java.util.Date());
} catch (IOException ioe) {
throw new JspException(ioe.getMessage());
}
return EVAL_PAGE;
}
public void release() {
}
public void setPageContext(PageContext page) {
this.pageContext = page;
}
public void setParent(Tag tag) {
this.parent = tag;
}
public Tag getParent() {
return this.parent;
}
}
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Step 2: Now we need to describe the tag, so create a file
called taglib.tld and place it under the web-inf
directory."http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-
jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd"> 1.0 1.1 myTag
http://www.mycompany.com/taglib My own tag library
showDate examples.ShowDateTag Show the current date
Step 3: Now we need to tell the web application where to
find the custom tags, and how they will be referenced from
JSP pages. Edit the web.xml file under the web-inf directory
and insert the following XML
fragement.http://www.mycompany.com/taglib /WEB-
INF/taglib.tld
Step 4: And finally, create a JSP page that uses the custom
tag.Now restart the server and call up the JSP page! You
should notice that every time the page is requested, the
current date is displayed in the browser. Whilst this doesn't
explain what all the various parts of the tag are for (e.g.
the tag description, page context, etc) it should get you
going. If you use the tutorial (above) and this example, you
should be able to grasp what's going on! There are some
methods in context object with the help of which u can get
the server (or servlet container) information.
Apart from all this with the help of ServletContext u can
implement ServletContextListener and then use the get-
InitParametermethod to read context initialization
parameters as the basis of data that will be made available
to all servlets and JSP pages.
+ What are the implicit objects in JSP & differences
between them
There are nine implicit objects in JSP.
8. request: The request object represents httprequest that
are trigged by service( ) invocation.
javax.servlet
9. response: The response object represents the servers
response to request.
javax.servlet
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10. pageContext: The page context specifies the single
entry point to many of the page attributes and is the
convient place to put shared data.
javax.servlet.jsp.pagecontext
11. session: the session object represents the session
created by the current user.
javax.Servlet.http.HttpSession
12. application: the application object represents servlet
context , obtained from servlet configaration.
javax.Servlet.ServletContext
13. out: the out object represents to write the out put
stream.
javax.Servlet.jsp.jspWriter
14. Config: the config object represents the servlet config
interface from this page,and has scope attribute.
javax.Servlet.ServletConfig
15. page: The object is th eInstance of page
implementation servlet class that are processing the current
request.
java.lang.Object
16. exception: These are used for different purposes and
actually u no need to create these objects in JSP. JSP
container will create these objects automatically.
java.lang.Throwable
You can directly use these objects.
Example:
If i want to put my username in the session in JSP.
JSP Page: In the about page, i am using session object. But
this session object is not declared in JSP file, because, this is
implicit object and it will be created by the jsp container.
If u see the java file for this jsp page in the work folder of
apache tomcat, u will find these objects are created.
+ What is jsp:usebean. What are the scope attributes &
difference between these attributes?
page, request, session, application
+ What is difference between scriptlet and expression?
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With expressions in JSP, the results of evaluating the
expression are converted to a string and directly included
within the output page. Typically expressions are used to
display simple values of variables or return values by invoking
a bean's getter methods. JSP expressions begin within tags
and do not include semicolons:
But scriptlet can contain any number of language statements,
variable or method declarations, or expressions that are valid
in the page scripting language. Within scriptlet tags, you can
declare variables or methods to use later in the file, write
expressions valid in the page scripting language, use any of
the JSP mplicit objects or any object declared with a.
+ What is Declaration
Declaration is used in JSP to declare methods and
variables.To add a declaration, you must use the sequences to
enclose your declarations.
+ How do you connect to the database from JSP
To be precise to connect jdbc from jsp is not good idea
ofcourse if ur working on dummy projects connecting to
msaccess u can very well use the same connection objects
amd methods in ur scriplets and define ur connection object in
init() method.
But if its real time u can use DAO design patterns which is
widely used. for ex u write all ur connection object and and sql
quires in a defiened method later use transfer object [TO ]
which is all ur fields have get/set methods and call it in
business object[BO] so DAO is accessd with precaution as it is
the crucial. Finally u define java bean which is a class holding
get/set method implementing serialization thus the bean is
called in the jsp. So never connect to jdbc directly from client
side since it can be hacked by any one to get ur password or
credit card info.
+ How do you call stored procedures from JSP
By using callable statement we can call stored procedures and
functions from the database.
+ How do you restrict page errors display in the JSP page
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set isErrorPage=false
+ How do you pass control from one JSP page to another
we can forward control to aother jsp using jsp action tags
forward or incllude
+ How do I have the JSP-generated servlet subclass my
own custom servlet class, instead of the default?
One should be very careful when having JSP pages extend
custom servlet classes as opposed to the default one
generated by the JSP engine. In doing so, you may lose out on
any advanced optimization that may be provided by the
JSPengine. In any case, your new superclass has to fulfill the
contract with the JSPngine by: Implementing the HttpJspPage
interface, if the protocol used is HTTP, or implementing
JspPage otherwise Ensuring that all the methods in the Servlet
interface are declared final Additionally, your servlet
superclass also needs to do the following:
The service() method has to invoke the _jspService() method
The init() method has to invoke the jspInit() method
The destroy() method has to invoke jspDestroy()
If any of the above conditions are not satisfied, the JSP engine
may throw a translation error. Once the superclass has been
developed, you can have your JSP extend it as follows:
<%@ page extends="packageName.ServletName" %>
+ How does a servlet communicate with a JSP page?
The following code snippet shows how a servlet instantiates a
bean and initializes it with FORM data posted by a browser.
The bean is then placed into the request, and the call is then
forwarded to the JSP page, Bean1.jsp, by means of a request
dispatcher for downstream processing.
public void doPost (HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) {
try {
govi.FormBean f = new govi.FormBean();
String id = request.getParameter("id");
f.setName(request.getParameter("name"));
f.setAddr(request.getParameter("addr"));
f.setAge(request.getParameter("age"));
//use the id to compute
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//additional bean properties like info
//maybe perform a db query, etc.
// . . .
f.setPersonalizationInfo(info);
request.setAttribute("fBean",f);
getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRequest
Dispatcher ("/jsp/Bean1.jsp").forward(request,
response);
} catch (Exception ex) {
. . .
}
}
The JSP page Bean1.jsp can then process fBean, after first
extracting it from the default request scope via the useBean
action.
jsp:useBean id="fBean" class="govi.FormBean"
scope="request"/
jsp:getProperty name="fBean" property="name" /
jsp:getProperty name="fBean" property="addr" /
jsp:getProperty name="fBean" property="age" /
jsp:getProperty name="fBean"
property="personalizationInfo" /
+ Is there a way I can set the inactivity lease period on a
per-session basis?
Typically, a default inactivity lease period for all sessions is set
within your JSPengine admin screen or associated properties
file. However, if your JSP engine supports the Servlet 2.1 API,
you can manage the inactivity lease period on a per-session
basis. This is done by invoking the
HttpSession.setMaxInactiveInterval() method, right after the
session has been created.
Example:
<% session.setMaxInactiveInterval(300); %>
would reset the inactivity period for this session to 5 minutes.
The inactivity interval is set in seconds.
+ How can I set a cookie and delete a cookie from within a
JSP page?
A cookie, mycookie, can be deleted using the following
scriptlet:
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<%
//creating a cookie
Cookie mycookie = new Cookie("aName","aValue");
response.addCookie(mycookie);
//delete a cookie
Cookie killMyCookie = new Cookie("mycookie", null);
killMyCookie.setMaxAge(0);
killMyCookie.setPath("/");
response.addCookie(killMyCookie);
%>
+ How can I declare methods within my JSP page?
You can declare methods for use within your JSP page as
declarations. The methods can then be invoked within any
other methods you declare, or within JSP scriptlets and
expressions.
Do note that you do not have direct access to any of the JSP
implicit objects like request, response, session and so forth
from within JSP methods. However, you should be able to pass
any of the implicit JSP variables as parameters to the methods
you declare.
Example:
<%!
public String whereFrom(HttpServletRequest req) {
HttpSession ses = req.getSession();
...
return req.getRemoteHost();
}
%>
<%
out.print("Hi there, I see that you are coming in from ");
%>
<%= whereFrom(request) %>
Another Example:
file1.jsp
<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%!
public void test(JspWriter writer) throws IOException {
writer.println("Hello!");
}
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%>
file2.jsp
<%@include file="file1.jsp"%>
<html>
<body>
<%test(out);% >
</body>
</html>
+ How can I enable session tracking for JSP pages if the
browser has disabled cookies?
We know that session tracking uses cookies by default to
associate a session identifier with a unique user. If the browser
does not support cookies, or if cookies are disabled, you can
still enable session tracking using URL rewriting. URL rewriting
essentially includes the session ID within the link itself as a
name/value pair. However, for this to be effective, you need to
append the session ID for each and every link that is part of
your servlet response. Adding the session ID to a link is
greatly simplified by means of of a couple of methods:
response.encodeURL() associates a session ID with a given
URL, and if you are using redirection,
response.encodeRedirectURL() can be used by giving the
redirected URL as input. Both encodeURL() and
encodeRedirectedURL() first determine whether cookies are
supported by the browser; if so, the input URL is returned
unchanged since the session ID will be persisted as a cookie.
Consider the following example, in which two JSP files, say
hello1.jsp and hello2.jsp, interact with each other. Basically,
we create a new session within hello1.jsp and place an object
within this session. The user can then traverse to hello2.jsp by
clicking on the link present within the page.Within hello2.jsp,
we simply extract the object that was earlier placed in the
session and display its contents. Notice that we invoke the
encodeURL() within hello1.jsp on the link used to invoke
hello2.jsp; if cookies are disabled, the session ID is
automatically appended to the URL, allowing hello2.jsp to still
retrieve the session object. Try this example first with cookies
enabled. Then disable cookie support, restart the brower, and
try again. Each time you should see the maintenance of the
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session across pages. Do note that to get this example to work
with cookies disabled at the browser, your JSP engine has to
support URL rewriting.
hello1.jsp
<%@ page session="true" %>
<%
Integer num = new Integer(100);
session.putValue("num",num);
String url =response.encodeURL("hello2.jsp");
%>
<a href='<%=url%>'>hello2.jsp</a>
hello2.jsp
<%@ page session="true" %>
<%
Integer i= (Integer )session.getValue("num");
out.println("Num value in session is "+i.intValue());
%>
+ How do I use a scriptlet to initialize a newly instantiated
bean?
A jsp:useBean action may optionally have a body. If the body
is specified, its contents will be automatically invoked when
the specified bean is instantiated. Typically, the body will
contain scriptlets or jsp:setProperty tags to initialize the newly
instantiated bean, although you are not restricted to using
those alone. The following example shows the "today" property
of the Foo bean initialized to the current date when it is
instantiated. Note that here, we make use of a JSP expression
within the jsp:setProperty action.
<jsp:useBean id="foo" class="com.Bar.Foo" >
<jsp:setProperty name="foo" property="today"
value="<
%=java.text.DateFormat.getDateInstance().format(new
java.util.Date())
%>"/ >
<%-- scriptlets calling bean setter methods go here --%>
</jsp:useBean >
+ How does JSP handle run-time exceptions?
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You can use the errorPage attribute of the page directive to
have uncaught runtime exceptions automatically forwarded to
an error processing page.
For example:
<%@ page errorPage="error.jsp" %>
redirects the browser to the JSP page error.jsp if an uncaught
exception is encountered during request processing. Within
error.jsp, if you indicate that it is an error-processing page, via
the directive:
<%@ page isErrorPage="true" %>
the Throwable object describing the exception may be
accessed within the error page via the exception implicit
object.
Note: You must always use a relative URL as the value for the
errorPage attribute.
+ How do I prevent the output of my JSP or Servlet pages
from being cached by the browser?
You will need to set the appropriate HTTP header attributes to
prevent the dynamic content output by the JSP page from
being cached by the browser. Just execute the following
scriptlet at the beginning of your JSP pages to prevent them
from being cached at the browser. You need both the
statements to take care of some of the older browser versions.
<%
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-store"); //HTTP
1.1
response.setHeader("Pragma","no-cache"); //HTTP 1.0
response.setDateHeader ("Expires", 0); //prevents caching
at the proxy server
%>
+ How do I use comments within a JSP page?
You can use "JSP-style" comments to selectively block out
code while debugging or simply to comment your scriptlets.
JSP comments are not visible at the client.
For example:
<%-- the scriptlet is now commented out
<%
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out.println("Hello World");
%>
--%>
You can also use HTML-style comments anywhere within your
JSP page. These comments are visible at the client. For
example:
<!-- (c) 2004 javagalaxy.com -->
Of course, you can also use comments supported by your JSP
scripting language within your scriptlets. For example,
assuming Java is the scripting language, you can have:
<%
//some comment
/**yet another comment **/
%>
+ Can I stop JSP execution while in the midst of
processing a request?
Yes. Preemptive termination of request processing on an error
condition is a good way to maximize the throughput of a high-
volume JSP engine. The trick (asuming Java is your scripting
language) is to use the return statement when you want to
terminate further processing. For example, consider:
<%
if (request.getParameter("foo") != null) {
//generate some html or update bean property
} else {
/*output some error message or provide redirection back
to the input form after creating a memento bean updated
with the 'valid' form elements that were input. This bean
can now be used by the previous form to initialize the
input elements that were valid then, return from the body
of the _jspService() method to terminate further
processing */
return;
}
%>
+ Is there a way to reference the "this" variable within a
JSP page?
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Yes, there is. Under JSP 1.0, the page implicit object is
equivalent to "this", and returns a reference to the servlet
generated by the JSP page.
+ How do I perform browser redirection from a JSP page?
You can use the response implicit object to redirect the
browser to a different resource, as:
response.sendRedirect("http://www.exforsys.com/pat
h/error.html");
You can also physically alter the Location HTTP header
attribute, as shown below:
<%
response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_MOVED_
PERMANENTLY);
String newLocn = "/newpath/index.html";
response.setHeader("Location",newLocn);
%>
You can also use the: <jsp:forward
page="/newpage.jsp" /> Also note that you can only use
this before any output has been sent to the client. I beleve this
is the case with the response.sendRedirect() method as
well. If you want to pass any paramateres then you can pass
using
<jsp:forward page="/servlet/login">
<jsp:param name="username" value="Kishore" />
</jsp:forward>
+ How do I include static files within a JSP page?
Answer Static resources should always be included using the
JSP include directive. This way, the inclusion is performed just
once during the translation phase. The following example
shows the syntax:
<%@ include file="copyright.html" %>
Do note that you should always supply a relative URL for the
file attribute. Although you can also include static resources
using the action, this is not advisable as the inclusion is then
performed for each and every request.
+ What JSP lifecycle methods can I override?
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You cannot override the _jspService() method within a JSP
page. You can however, override the jspInit() and jspDestroy()
methods within a JSP page. jspInit() can be useful for
allocating resources like database connections, network
connections, and so forth for the JSP page. It is good
programming practice to free any allocated resources within
jspDestroy().
The jspInit() and jspDestroy() methods are each executed just
once during the lifecycle of a JSP page and are typically
declared as JSP declarations:
<%!
public void jspInit() {
. . .
}
%>
<%!
public void jspDestroy() {
. . .
}
%>
+ Can a JSP page process HTML FORM data?
Yes. However, unlike servlets, you are not required to
implement HTTP-protocol specific methods like doGet() or
doPost() within your JSP page. You can obtain the data for
the FORM input elements via the request implicit object within
a scriptlet or expression as:
<%
String item = request.getParameter("item");
int howMany = new
Integer(request.getParameter("units")).intValue();
%>
or
<%= request.getParameter("item") %>
+ How do I mix JSP and SSI #include?
If you're just including raw HTML, use the #include directive as
usual inside your .jsp file.
<!--#include file="data.inc"-->
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But it's a little trickier if you want the server to evaluate any
JSP code that's inside the included file. If your data.inc file
contains jsp code you will have to use <%@
vinclude="data.inc" %> The <!--#include file="data.inc"--> is
used for including non-JSP files.
+ How can I implement a thread-safe JSP page?
You can make your JSPs thread-safe by having them
implement the SingleThreadModel interface. This is done by
adding the directive
<%@ page isThreadSafe="false" % > within your JSP
page.
+ How do I include static files within a JSP page?
Static resources should always be included using the JSP
include directive. This way, the inclusion is performed just
once during the translation phase. The following example
shows the syntax: Do note that you should always supply a
relative URL for the file attribute. Although you can also
include static resources using the action, this is not advisable
as the inclusion is then performed for each and every request.
+ How do you prevent the Creation of a Session in a JSP
Page and why?
By default, a JSP page will automatically create a session for
the request if one does not exist. However, sessions consume
resources and if it is not necessary to maintain a session, one
should not be created. For example, a marketing campaign
may suggest the reader visit a web page for more information.
If it is anticipated that a lot of traffic will hit that page, you
may want to optimize the load on the machine by not creating
useless sessions.
+ What is the page directive is used to prevent a JSP page
from automatically creating a session:
<%@ page session="false">
+ Is it possible to share an HttpSession between a JSP and
EJB? What happens when I change a value in the
HttpSession from inside an EJB?
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You can pass the HttpSession as parameter to an EJB method,
only if all objects in session are serializable.This has to be
consider as "passed-by-value", that means that it's read-only
in the EJB. If anything is altered from inside the EJB, it won't
be reflected back to the HttpSession of the Servlet
Container.The "pass-byreference" can be used between EJBs
Remote Interfaces, as they are remote references. While it IS
possible to pass an HttpSession as a parameter to an EJB
object, it is considered to be "bad practice (1)" in terms of
object oriented design. This is because you are creating an
unnecessary coupling between back-end objects (ejbs) and
front-end objects (HttpSession). Create a higher-level of
abstraction for your ejb's api. Rather than passing the whole,
fat, HttpSession (which carries with it a bunch of http
semantics), create a class that acts as a value object (or
structure) that holds all the data you need to pass back and
forth between front-end/back-end. Consider the case where
your ejb needs to support a non-http-based client. This higher
level of abstraction will be flexible enough to support it. (1)
Core J2EE design patterns (2001).
+ Can a JSP page instantiate a serialized bean?
No problem! The useBean action specifies the beanName
attribute, which can be used for indicating a serialized bean.
For example:
<jsp:useBean id="shop" type="shopping.CD"
beanName="CD" />
<jsp:getProperty name="shop" property="album" />
A couple of important points to note. Although you would have
to name your serialized file "filename.ser", you only indicate
"filename" as the value for the beanName attribute. Also, you
will have to place your serialized file within the WEB-
INFjspbeans directory for it to be located by the JSP engine.
+ Can you make use of a ServletOutputStream object from
within a JSP page?
No. You are supposed to make use of only a JSPWriter object
(given to you in the form of the implicit object out) for replying
to clients. A JSPWriter can be viewed as a buffered version of
the stream object returned by response.getWriter(), although
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from an implementational perspective, it is not. A page author
can always disable the default buffering for any page using a
page directive as:
<%@ page buffer="none" %>
+ Can we implements interface or extends class in JSP?
No, we can't implements interface or extends class in JSP.
+ What are the steps required in adding a JSP Tag
Libraries?
17. Create a TLD file and configure the required class
Information.
18. Create the Java Implementation Source extending the
JSP Tag Lib Class (TagSupport).
19. Compile and package it as loosed class file or as a jar
under lib folder in Web Archive File for Class loading.
20. Place the TLD file under the WEB-INF folder.
21. Add reference to the tag library in the web.xml file.
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Introduction to MVC (Model View Controler)
+ Overview of MVC Architecture
The MVC design pattern divides applications into three
components:
The Model maintains the state and data that the
application represents.
The View allows the display of information about the
model to the user.
The Controller allows the user to manipulate the
application.
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In Struts, the view is handled by JSPs and presentation
components, the model is represented by Java Beans and the
controller uses Servlets to perform its action.
By developing a familiar Web-based shopping cart, you'll learn
how to utilize the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
and truly separate presentation from content when using Java
Server Pages.
+ Applying MVC in Servlets and JSP
Many web applications are JSP-only or Servlets-only. With JSP,
Java code is embedded in the HTML code; with Servlets the
Java code calls println methods to generate the HTML code.
Both approaches have their advantages and drawbacks; Struts
gathers their strengths to get the best of their association.
Below you will find one example on registration form
processing using MVC in Servlets and JSP:
1. In the above application Reg.jsp act as view accepts I/P
from client and submits to Controller Servlet.
2. Controller Servlet validates the form data, if valid, stores
the data into DB
3. Based on the validation and DB operations Controller Servlet
decides to respond either Confirm.jsp or Error.jsp to clients
browser.
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4. When the Error.jsp is responded, the page must include all
the list of errors with detailed description.
5. The above shown application architecture is the model for
MVC.
6. IF MVC Model 2 wants to be implemented in your application
business logic and model operations must be separated
from controller program.
+ Struts
Struts is an open source framework from Jakartha Project
designed for developing the web applications with Java
SERVLET API and Java Server Pages Technologies.Struts
conforms the Model View Controller design pattern. Struts
package provides unified reusable components (such as action
servlet) to build the user interface that can be applied to any
web connection. It encourages software development
following the MVC design pattern.
+ View on JSP
The early JSP specification follows two approaches for building
applications using JSP technology. These two approaches are
called as JSP Model 1 and JSP Model 2 architectures.
JSP Model 1 Architecture

In Model 1 architecture the JSP page is alone responsible
for processing the incoming request and replying back to
the client. There is still separation of presentation from
content, because all data access is performed using beans.
Although the JSP Model 1 Architecture is more suitable for
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simple applications, it may not be desirable for complex
implementations.
JSP Model 2 Architecture - MVC
The Model 2 Architecture is an approach for serving
dynamic content, since it combines the use of both Servlets
and JSP. It takes advantages of the predominant strengths
of both technologies, using JSP to generate the presentation
layer and Servlets to perform process-intensive tasks. Here
servlet acts as controller and is in charge of request
processing and the creation of any beans or objects used by
the JSP as well as deciding depending on the users actions,
which JSP page to forward the request to. Note that there is
no processing logic within the JSP page itself; it is simply
responsible for retrieving any objects or beans that may
have been previously created by the servlet, and extracting
the dynamic content from that servlet for insertion within
static templates.
+ Limitation in traditional MVC approach
The main limitation in the traditional MVC approach is, in that
there is no separation of business logic (validation/ conditions/
anything related to business rules) from controller (is
responsible for controlling of the application flow by using
static/dynamic request dispatcher.
+ MVC Model 2 Architecture is Model View Controller
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1. Client submits login request to servlet application.
2. Servlet application acts as controller it first decides to
request validator another servlet program which is
responsible for not null checking (business rule).
3. control comes to controller back and based on the validation
response, if the response is positive, servlet controller sends
the request to model.
4. Model requests DB to verify whether the database is having
the same user name and password, If found login operation
is successful.
5. Beans are used to store if any data retrieved from the
database and kept into HTTPSession.
6. Controller then gives response back to response JSP (view)
which uses the bean objects stored in HTTPSession object.
7. and prepares presentation response on to the browser.
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Overview of Struts Framework
+ Introduction to Struts Framework
The goal of this project is to provide an open source
framework for building Java web applications. The core of the
Struts framework is a flexible control layer based on standard
technologies like Java Servlets, JavaBeans, Resource Bundles,
and XML, as well as various Jakarta Commons packages.
Struts encourages application architectures based on the
Model 2 approach, a variation of the classic Model-View-
Controller (MVC) design paradigm.
Struts provides its own Controller component and integrates
with other technologies to provide the Model and the View.
For the Model, Struts can interact with standard data access
technologies, like JDBC and EJB, as well as most any third-
party packages, like Hibernate, iBATIS, or Object Relational
Bridge.
For the View, Struts works well with Java Server Pages,
including JSTL and JSF, as well as Velocity Templates, XSLT,
and other presentation systems.
For Controller, ActionServlet and ActionMapping - The
Controller portion of the application is focused on receiving
requests from the client deciding what business logic function
is to be performed, and then delegating responsibility for
producing the next phase of the user interface to an
appropriate View component. In Struts, the primary
component of the Controller is a servlet of class ActionServlet.
This servlet is configured by defining a set of ActionMappings.
An ActionMapping defines a path that is matched against the
request URI of the incoming request, and usually specifies the
fully qualified class name of an Action class. Actions
encapsulate the business logic, interpret the outcome, and
ultimately dispatch control to the appropriate View component
to create the response.
The Struts project was launched in May 2000 by Craig
McClanahan to provide a standard MVC framework to the Java
community. In July 2001.
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In the MVC design pattern, application flow is mediated by a
central Controller. The Controller delegates requests - in our
case, HTTP requests - to an appropriate handler. The handlers
are tied to a Model, and each handler acts as an adapter
between the request and the Model. The Model represents, or
encapsulates, an application's business logic or state. Control
is usually then forwarded back through the Controller to the
appropriate View. The forwarding can be determined by
consulting a set of mappings, usually loaded from a database
or configuration file. This provides a loose coupling between
the View and Model, which can make applications significantly
easier to create and maintain.
+ Struts Architecture
+ Front Controller
Context: The presentation-tier request handling mechanism
must control and coordinate processing of each user across
multiple requests. Such control mechanisms may be managed
in either a centralized or decentralized manner.
Problem: The system requires a centralized access point for
presentation-tier request handling to support the integration of
system services, content retrieval, view management, and
navigation. When the user accesses the view directly without
going through a centralized mechanism,
Two problems may occur:
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Each view is required to provide its own system services,
often resulting in duplicate code.
View navigation is left to the views. This may result in
commingled view content and view navigation.
Additionally, distributed control is more difficult to maintain,
since changes will often need to be made in numerous places.
Solution: Use a controller as the initial point of contact for
handling a request. The controller manages the handling of the
request, including invoking security services such as
authentication and authorization, delegating business
processing, managing the choice of an appropriate view,
handling errors, and managing the selection of content
creation strategies.
The controller provides a centralized entry point that controls
and manages Web request handling. By centralizing decision
points and controls, the controller also helps reduce the
amount of Java code, called scriptlets, embedded in the
JavaServer Pages (JSP) page.

Centralizing control in the controller and reducing business
logic in the view promotes code reuse across requests. It is a
preferable approach to the alternative-embedding code in
multiple views-because that approach may lead to a more
error-prone, reuse-by-copy- and-paste environment.

Typically, a controller coordinates with a dispatcher
component. Dispatchers are responsible for view management
and navigation. Thus, a dispatcher chooses the next view for
the user and vectors control to the resource. Dispatchers may
be encapsulated within the controller directly or can be
extracted into a separate component.
While the Front Controller pattern suggests centralizing the
handling of all requests, it does not limit the number of
handlers in the system, as does a Singleton. An application
may use multiple controllers in a system, each mapping to a
set of distinct services.
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+ Structure
Below figure represents the Front Controller class diagram
pattern.
Figure: Front Controller class diagram
+ Participants and Responsibilities
Below figure shows the sequence diagram representing the
Front Controller pattern. It depicts how the controller handles
a request.
Figure: Front Controller sequence diagram
Controller: The controller is the initial contact point for
handling all requests in the system. The controller may
delegate to a helper to complete authentication and
authorization of a user or to initiate contact retrieval.
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Dispatcher: A dispatcher is responsible for view management
and navigation, managing the choice of the next view to
present to the user, and providing the mechanism for
vectoring control to this resource.
A dispatcher can be encapsulated within a controller or can be
a separate component working in coordination. The dispatcher
provides either a static dispatching to the view or a more
sophisticated dynamic dispatching mechanism.
The dispatcher uses the Request Dispatcher object (supported
in the servlet specification) and encapsulates some additional
processing.
Helper: A helper is responsible for helping a view or controller
complete its processing. Thus, helpers have numerous
responsibilities, including gathering data required by the view
and storing this intermediate model, in which case the helper
is sometimes referred to as a value bean. Additionally, helpers
may adapt this data model for use by the view. Helpers can
service requests for data from the view by simply providing
access to the raw data or by formatting the data as Web
content.
A view may work with any number of helpers, which are
typically implemented as JavaBeans components (JSP 1.0+)
and custom tags (JSP 1.1+). Additionally, a helper may
represent a Command object, a delegate, or an XSL
Transformer, which is used in combination with a stylesheet to
adapt and convert the model into the appropriate form.
View: A view represents and displays information to the client.
The view retrieves information from a model. Helpers support
views by encapsulating and adapting the underlying data
model for use in the display.
+ Controller Servlet Action Servlet
For those of you familiar with MVC architecture, the
ActionServlet represents the C - the controller. The job of the
controller is to:
process user requests,
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determine what the user is trying to achieve according to
the request,
pull data from the model (if necessary) to be given to the
appropriate view, and
select the proper view to respond to the user.
The Struts controller delegates most of this grunt work to the
Request Processor and Action classes.
In addition to being the front controller for your application,
the ActionServlet instance also is responsible for initialization
and clean-up of resources. When the controller initializes, it
first loads the application config corresponding to the "config"
init-param. It then goes through an enumeration of all init-
param elements, looking for those elements who's name starts
with config/. For each of these elements, Struts loads the
configuration file specified by the value of that init-param, and
assigns a "prefix" value to that module's ModuleConfig
instance consisting of the piece of the init-param name
following "config/". For example, the module prefix specified
by the init-param config/foo would be "foo". This is important
to know, since this is how the controller determines which
module will be given control of processing the request. To
access the module foo, you would use a URL like:
http://localhost:8080/myApp/foo/someAction.do
For each request made of the controller, the method
process(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) will be
called. This method simply determines which module should
service the request and then invokes that module's
RequestProcessor's process method, passing the same request
and response.
+ Request Processor:
The RequestProcessor is where the majority of the core
processing occurs for each request. Let's take a look at the
helper functions the process method invokes in-turn:
processPat
h
Determine the path that invoked us. This will be
used later to retrieve an ActionMapping.
processLoc
ale
Select a locale for this request, if one hasn't
already been selected, and place it in the request.
processCon Set the default content type (with optional
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tent character encoding) for all responses if requested.
processNo
Cache
If appropriate, set the following response
headers: "Pragma", "Cache-Control", and
"Expires".
processPre
process
This is one of the "hooks" the RequestProcessor
makes available for subclasses to override. The
default implementation simply returns true. If you
subclass RequestProcessor and override
processPreprocess you should either return true
(indicating process should continue processing
the request) or false (indicating you have handled
the request and the process should return)
processMa
pping
Determine the ActionMapping associated with this
path.
processRol
es
If the mapping has a role associated with it,
ensure the requesting user is has the specified
role. If they do not, raise an error and stop
processing of the request.
processActi
onForm
Instantiate (if necessary) the ActionForm
associated with this mapping (if any) and place it
into the appropriate scope.
processPop
ulate
Populate the ActionForm associated with this
request, if any.
processVali
date
Perform validation (if requested) on the
ActionForm associated with this request (if any).
processFor
ward
If this mapping represents a forward, forward to
the path specified by the mapping.
processIncl
ude
If this mapping represents an include, include the
result of invoking the path in this request.
processActi
onCreate
Instantiate an instance of the class specified by
the current ActionMapping (if necessary).
processActi
onPerform
This is the point at which your action's perform or
execute method will be called.
processFor
wardConfig
Finally, the process method of the
RequestProcessor takes the ActionForward
returned by your Action class, and uses to select
the next resource (if any). Most often the
ActionForward leads to the presentation page that
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renders the response.
+ Action class
The Action class defines two methods that could be executed
depending on your servlet environment:
public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,
ActionForm form,
ServletRequest request,
ServletResponse response)
throws Exception;
public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,
ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws Exception;
Since the majority of Struts projects are focused on building
web applications, most projects will only use the
"HttpServletRequest" version. A non-HTTP execute() method
has been provided for applications that are not specifically
geared towards the HTTP protocol.
The goal of an Action class is to process a request, via its
execute method, and return an ActionForward object that
identifies where control should be forwarded (e.g. a JSP, Tile
definition, Velocity template, or another Action) to provide the
appropriate response. In the MVC/Model 2 design pattern, a
typical Action class will often implement logic like the following
in its execute method:
Validate the current state of the user's session (for
example, checking that the user has successfully logged
on). If the Action class finds that no logon exists, the
request can be forwarded to the presentation page that
displays the username and password prompts for logging
on. This could occur because a user tried to enter an
application "in the middle" (say, from a bookmark), or
because the session has timed out, and the servlet
container created a new one.
If validation is not complete, validate the form bean
properties as needed. If a problem is found, store the
appropriate error message keys as a request attribute, and
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forward control back to the input form so that the errors can
be corrected.
Perform the processing required to deal with this request
(such as saving a row into a database). This can be done by
logic code embedded within the Action class itself, but
should generally be performed by calling an appropriate
method of a business logic bean.
Update the server-side objects that will be used to create
the next page of the user interface (typically request scope
or session scope beans, depending on how long you need to
keep these items available).
Return an appropriate ActionForward object that identifies
the presentation page to be used to generate this response,
based on the newly updated beans. Typically, you will
acquire a reference to such an object by calling findForward
on either the ActionMapping object you received (if you are
using a logical name local to this mapping), or on the
controller servlet itself (if you are using a logical name
global to the application).
In Struts 1.0, Actions called a perform method instead of the
now-preferred execute method. These methods use the same
parameters and differ only in which exceptions they throw. The
elder perform method throws SerlvetException and
IOException. The new execute method simply throws
Exception. The change was to facilitate the Declarative
Exception handling feature introduced in Struts 1.1.
The perform method may still be used in Struts 1.1 but is
deprecated. The Struts 1.1 method simply calls the new
execute method and wraps any Exception thrown as a
ServletException.
+ Action Form class
An ActionForm represents an HTML form that the user
interacts with over one or more pages. You will provide
properties to hold the state of the form with getters and
setters to access them. ActionForms can be stored in either
the session (default) or request scopes. If they're in the
session it's important to implement the form's reset method to
initialize the form before each use. Struts sets the
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ActionForm's properties from the request parameters and
sends the validated form to the appropriate Action's execute
method.
When you code your ActionForm beans, keep the following
principles in mind:
The ActionForm class itself requires no specific methods
to be implemented. It is used to identify the role these
particular beans play in the overall architecture. Typically,
an ActionForm bean will have only property getter and
property setter methods, with no business logic.
The ActionForm object also offers a standard validation
mechanism. If you override a "stub" method, and provide
error messages in the standard application resource, Struts
will automatically validate the input from the form (using
your method). See "Automatic Form Validation" for details.
Of course, you can also ignore the ActionForm validation
and provide your own in the Action object.
Define a property (with associated getXxx and setXxx
methods) for each field that is present in the form. The field
name and property name must match according to the usual
JavaBeans conventions (see the Javadoc for the
java.beans.Introspector class for a start on information
about this). For example, an input field named username
will cause the setUsername method to be called.
Buttons and other controls on your form can also be
defined as properties. This can help determine which button
or control was selected when the form was submitted.
Remember, the ActionForm is meant to represent your
data-entry form, not just the data beans.
Think of your ActionForm beans as a firewall between
HTTP and the Action. Use the validate method to ensure all
required properties are present, and that they contain
reasonable values. An ActionForm that fails validation will
not even be presented to the Action for handling.
You may also place a bean instance on your form, and
use nested property references. For example, you might
have a "customer" bean on your ActionForm, and then refer
to the property "customer.name" in your presentation page.
This would correspond to the methods customer.getName()
and customer.setName(string Name) on your customer
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bean. See the Tag Library Developer Guides for more about
using nested syntax with the Struts JSP tags.
Caution: If you nest an existing bean instance on your
form, think about the properties it exposes. Any public
property on an ActionForm that accepts a single String value
can be set with a query string. It may be useful to place
beans that can affect the business state inside a thin
"wrapper" that exposes only the properties required. This
wrapper can also provide a filter to be sure runtime
properties are not set to inappropriate values.
+ Action class Design guidelines
Remember the following design guidelines when coding Action
classes:
Write code for a multi-threaded environment - The
controller servlet creates only one instance of your Action
class, and uses this one instance to service all requests.
Thus, you need to write thread-safe Action classes. Follow
the same guidelines you would use to write thread-safe
Servlets. Here are two general guidelines that will help you
write scalable, thread-safe Action classes:
o Only Use Local Variables - The most important principle
that aids in thread-safe coding is to use only local
variables, not instance variables, in your Action class.
Local variables are created on a stack that is assigned (by
your JVM) to each request thread, so there is no need to
worry about sharing them. An Action can be factored into
several local methods, so long as all variables needed are
passed as method parameters. This assures thread
safety, as the JVM handles such variables internally using
the call stack which is associated with a single Thread.
o Conserve Resources - As a general rule, allocating scarce
resources and keeping them across requests from the
same user (in the user's session) can cause scalability
problems. For example, if your application uses JDBC and
you allocate a separate JDBC connection for every user,
you are probably going to run in some scalability issues
when your site suddenly shows up on Slashdot. You
should strive to use pools and release resources (such as
database connections) prior to forwarding control to the
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appropriate View component -- even if a bean method
you have called throws an exception.
Don't throw it, catch it! - Ever used a commercial website
only to have a stack trace or exception thrown in your face
after you've already typed in your credit card number and
clicked the purchase button? Let's just say it doesn't inspire
confidence. Now is your chance to deal with these
application errors - in the Action class. If your application
specific code throws expections you should catch these
exceptions in your Action class, log them in your
application's log (servlet.log("Error message", exception))
and return the appropriate ActionForward.
It is wise to avoid creating lengthy and complex Action
classes. If you start to embed too much logic in the Action
class itself, you will begin to find the Action class hard to
understand, maintain, and impossible to reuse. Rather than
creating overly complex Action classes, it is generally a good
practice to move most of the persistence, and "business
logic" to a separate application layer. When an Action class
becomes lengthy and procedural, it may be a good time to
refactor your application architecture and move some of this
logic to another conceptual layer; otherwise, you may be
left with an inflexible application which can only be accessed
in a web-application environment. Struts should be viewed
as simply the foundation for implementing MVC in your
applications. Struts provides you with a useful control layer,
but it is not a fully featured platform for building MVC
applications, soup to nuts.
The MailReader example application included with Struts
stretches this design principle somewhat, because the
business logic itself is embedded in the Action classes. This
should be considered something of a bug in the design of
the example, rather than an intrinsic feature of the Struts
architecture, or an approach to be emulated. In order to
demonstrate, in simple terms, the different ways Struts can
be used, the MailReader application does not always follow
best practices.
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+ Action mapping implementation
In order to operate successfully, the Struts controller servlet
needs to know several things about how each request URI
should be mapped to an appropriate Action class. The required
knowledge has been encapsulated in a Java class named
ActionMapping, the most important properties are as follows:
type - Fully qualified Java class name of the Action
implementation class used by this mapping.
name - The name of the form bean defined in the config
file that this action will use.
path - The request URI path that is matched to select
this mapping. See below for examples of how matching
works and how to use wildcards to match multiple request
URIs.
unknown - Set to true if this action should be configured
as the default for this application, to handle all requests not
handled by another action. Only one action can be defined
as a default within a single application.
validate - Set to true if the validate method of the action
associated with this mapping should be called.
forward - The request URI path to which control is
passed when this mapping is invoked. This is an alternative
to declaring a type property.
+ Writing Action Mappings
How does the controller servlet learn about the mappings you
want? It would be possible (but tedious) to write a small Java
class that simply instantiated new ActionMapping instances,
and called all of the appropriate setter methods. To make this
process easier, Struts uses the Jakarta Commons Digester
component to parse an XML-based description of the desired
mappings and create the appropriate objects initialized to the
appropriate default values. See the Jakarta Commons website
for more information about the Digester.
The developer's responsibility is to create an XML file named
struts-config.xml and place it in the WEB-INF directory of your
application. This format of this document is described by the
Document Type Definition (DTD) maintained at
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_2.dtd.
This chapter covers the configuration elements that you will
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typically write as part of developing your application. There are
several other elements that can be placed in the struts-config
file to customize your application. See "Configuring
Applications" for more about the other elements in the Struts
configuration file.
The controller uses an internal copy of this document to parse
the configuration; an Internet connection is not required for
operation.
The outermost XML element must be <struts-config>. Inside
of the <struts-config> element, there are three important
elements that are used to describe your actions:
<form-beans>
<global-forwards>
<action-mappings>
<form-beans>
This section contains your form bean definitions. Form beans
are descriptors that are used to create ActionForm instances at
runtime. You use a <form-bean> element for each form bean,
which has the following important attributes:
name: A unique identifier for this bean, which will be
used to reference it in corresponding action mappings.
Usually, this is also the name of the request or session
attribute under which this form bean will be stored.
type: The fully-qualified Java classname of the
ActionForm subclass to use with this form bean.
<global-forwards>
This section contains your global forward definitions. Forwards
are instances of the ActionForward class returned from an
ActionForm's execute method. These map logical names to
specific resources (typically JSPs), allowing you to change the
resource without changing references to it throughout your
application. You use a <forward> element for each forward
definition, which has the following important attributes:
name: The logical name for this forward. This is used in
your ActionForm's execute method to forward to the next
appropriate resource. Example: homepage
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path: The context relative path to the resource. Example:
/index.jsp or /index.do
redirect: True or false (default). Should the
ActionServlet redirect to the resource instead of forward?
<action-mappings>
This section contains your action definitions. You use an
<action> element for each of the mappings you would like to
define. Most action elements will define at least the following
attributes:
path: The application context-relative path to the action.
type: The fully qualified java classname of your Action
class.
name: The name of your <form-bean> element to use
with this action
Other often-used attributes include:
parameter: A general-purpose attribute often used by
"standard" Actions to pass a required property.
roles: A comma-delimited list of the user security roles
that can access this mapping.
For a complete description of the elements that can be used
with the action element, see the Struts Configuration DTD and
the ActionMapping documentation.
+ Action Mapping Example
Here's a mapping entry based on the MailReader example
application. The MailReader application now uses
DynaActionForms. But in this example, we'll show a
conventinal ActionForm instead, to illustrate the usual
workflow. Note that the entries for all the other actions are left
out:
<struts-config>
<form-beans>
<form-bean
name="logonForm"
type="org.apache.struts.webapp.example.LogonForm"
/>
</form-beans>
<global-forwards
type="org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward">
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<forward
name="logon"
path="/logon.jsp"
redirect="false" />
</global-forwards>
<action-mappings>
<action
path ="/logon"
type
="org.apache.struts.webapp.example.LogonAction"
name ="logonForm"
scope ="request"
input ="/logon.jsp"
unknown="false"
validate="true" />
</action-mappings>
</struts-config>
First the form bean is defined. A basic bean of class
"org.apache.struts.webapp.example.LogonForm" is mapped to
the logical name "logonForm". This name is used as a request
attribute name for the form bean.
The "global-forwards" section is used to create logical name
mappings for commonly used presentation pages. Each of
these forwards is available through a call to your action
mapping instance, i.e. mapping.findForward("logicalName").
As you can see, this mapping matches the path /logon
(actually, because the MailReader example application uses
extension mapping, the request URI you specify in a JSP page
would end in /logon.do). When a request that matches this
path is received, an instance of the LogonAction class will be
created (the first time only) and used. The controller servlet
will look for a bean in request scope under key logonForm,
creating and saving a bean of the specified class if needed.
Optional but very useful are the local "forward" elements. In
the MailReader example application, many actions include a
local "success" and/or "failure" forward as part of an action
mapping.
<!-- Edit mail subscription -->
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<action
path="/editSubscription"
type="org.apache.struts.webapp.example.EditSubscriptionA
ction"
name="subscriptionForm"
scope="request"
validate="false">
<forward name="failure" path="/mainMenu.jsp"/>
<forward name="success" path="/subscription.jsp"/>
</action>
Using just these two extra properties, the Action classes are
almost totally independent of the actual names of the
presentation pages. The pages can be renamed (for example)
during a redesign, with negligible impact on the Action classes
themselves. If the names of the "next" pages were hard coded
into the Action classes, all of these classes would also need to
be modified. Of course, you can define whatever local forward
properties makes sense for your own application.
The Struts configuration file includes several other elements
that you can use to customize your application. See
"Configuring Applications" for details.
+ Using Action Mapping for pages
Fronting your pages with ActionMappings is essential when
using modules, since doing so is the only way you involve the
controller in the request -- and you want to! The controller
puts the application configuration in the request, which makes
available all of your module-specific configuration data
(including which message resources you are using, request-
processor, datasources, and so forth).
The simplest way to do this is to use the forward property of
the ActionMapping:
<action path="/view" forward="/view.jsp"/>
+ Configuring struts-config.xml file
The Building Controller Components chapter covered writing
the form-bean and action-mapping portions of the Struts
configuration file. These elements usually play an important
role in the development of a Struts application. The other
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elements in Struts configuration file tend to be static: you set
them once and leave them alone.
These "static" configuration elements are:
controller
message-resources
plug-in
data-sources
+ Controller configuration
The <controller> element allows you to configure the
ActionServlet. Many of the controller parameters were
previously defined by servlet initialization parameters in your
web.xml file but have been moved to this section of struts-
config.xml in order to allow different modules in the same web
application to be configured differently. For full details on
available parameters see the struts-config_1_2.dtd or the list
below.
bufferSize - The size (in bytes) of the input buffer used
when processing file uploads. [4096] (optional)
className - Classname of configuration bean.
[org.apache.struts.config.ControllerConfig] (optional)
contentType - Default content type (and optional
character encoding) to be set on each response. May be
overridden by the Action, JSP, or other resource to which
the request is forwarded. [text/html] (optional)
forwardPattern - Replacement pattern defining how the
"path" attribute of a <forward> element is mapped to a
context-relative URL when it starts with a slash (and when
the contextRelative property is false). This value may
consist of any combination of the following:
o $M - Replaced by the module prefix of this module.
o $P - Replaced by the "path" attribute of the selected
<forward> element.
o $$ - Causes a literal dollar sign to be rendered.
o $x - (Where "x" is any character not defined above)
Silently swallowed, reserved for future use.
If not specified, the default forwardPattern is consistent with
the previous behavior of forwards. [$M$P] (optional)
inputForward - Set to true if you want the input
attribute of <action> elements to be the name of a local or
global ActionForward, which will then be used to calculate
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the ultimate URL. Set to false to treat the input parameter
of <action> elements as a module-relative path to the
resource to be used as the input form. [false] (optional)
locale - Set to true if you want a Locale object stored in
the user's session if not already present. [true] (optional)
maxFileSize - The maximum size (in bytes) of a file to
be accepted as a file upload. Can be expressed as a number
followed by a "K", "M", or "G", which are interpreted to
mean kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes, respectively.
[250M] (optional)
multipartClass - The fully qualified Java class name of
the multipart request handler class to be used with this
module.
[org.apache.struts.upload.CommonsMultipartRequestHandle
r] (optional)
nocache - Set to true if you want the controller to add
HTTP headers for defeating caching to every response from
this module. [false] (optional)
pagePattern - Replacement pattern defining how the
page attribute of custom tags using it is mapped to a
context-relative URL of the corresponding resource. This
value may consist of any combination of the following:
o $M - Replaced by the module prefix of this module.
o $P - Replaced by the "path" attribute of the selected
<forward> element.
o $$ - Causes a literal dollar sign to be rendered.
o $x - (Where "x" is any character not defined above)
Silently swallowed, reserved for future use.
If not specified, the default pagePattern is consistent with
the previous behavior of URL calculation. [$M$P] (optional)
processorClass - The fully qualified Java class name of
the RequestProcessor subclass to be used with this module.
[org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor] (optional)
tempDir - Temporary working directory to use when
processing file uploads. [{the directory provided by the
servlet container}]
This example uses the default values for several controller
parameters. If you only want default behavior you can omit
the controller section altogether.
<controller
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processorClass="org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor
"
debug="0"
contentType="text/html"/>;
+ Message Resource configuration
Struts has built in support for internationalization (I18N). You
can define one or more <message-resources> elements for
your webapp; modules can define their own resource bundles.
Different bundles can be used simultaneously in your
application, the 'key' attribute is used to specify the desired
bundle.
className - Classname of configuration bean.
[org.apache.struts.config.MessageResourcesConfig]
(optional)
factory - Classname of MessageResourcesFactory.
[org.apache.struts.util.PropertyMessageResourcesFactory]
(optional)
key - ServletContext attribute key to store this bundle.
[org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE] (optional)
null - Set to false to display missing resource keys in
your application like '???keyname???' instead of null. [true]
(optional)
parameter - Name of the resource bundle. (required)
Example configuration:
<message-resources parameter="MyWebAppResources"
null="false" />
This would set up a message resource bundle provided in the
file MyWebAppResources.properties under the default key.
Missing resource keys would be displayed as '???keyname???'.
+ PlugIn configuration
Struts PlugIns are configured using the <plug-in> element
within the Struts configuration file. This element has only one
valid attribute, 'className', which is the fully qualified name of
the Java class which implements the
org.apache.struts.action.PlugIn interface.
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For PlugIns that require configuration themselves, the nested
<set-property> element is available.
This is an example using the Tiles plugin:
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >
<set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-
INF/tiles-defs.xml"/>
</plug-in>
+ DataSource configuration
Besides the objects related to defining ActionMappings, the
Struts configuration may contain elements that create other
useful objects.
The <data-sources> section can be used to specify a collection
of DataSources [javax.sql.DataSource] for the use of your
application. Typically, a DataSource represents a connection
pool to a database or other persistent store. As a convenience,
the Struts DataSource manager can be used to instantiate
whatever standard pool your application may need. Of course,
if your persistence layer provides for its own connections, then
you do not need to specify a data-sources element.
Since DataSource implementations vary in what properties
need to be set, unlike other Struts configuration elements, the
data-source element does not pre-define a slate of properties.
Instead, the generic set-property feature is used to set
whatever properties your implementation may require.
Typically, these settings would include:
A driver class name
A url to access the driver
A description
And other sundry properties.
<data-source
type="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
<!-- ... set-property elements ... -->
</data-source>
In Struts 1.2.0, the GenericDataSource has been removed,
and it is recommended that you use the Commons
BasicDataSource or other DataSource implementation instead.
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In practice, if you need to use the DataSource manager, you
should use whatever DataSource implementation works best
with your container or database.
For examples of specifying a data-sources element and using
the DataSource with an Action.
+ The Struts configuration file
The Building Controller Components chapter covered writing
the form-bean and action-mapping portions of the Struts
configuration file. These elements usually play an important
role in the development of a Struts application. The other
elements in Struts configuration file tend to be static: you set
them once and leave them alone.
These "static" configuration elements are:
controller
message-resources
plug-in
data-sources
+ Controller Configuration
The <controller> element allows you to configure the
ActionServlet. Many of the controller parameters were
previously defined by servlet initialization parameters in your
web.xml file but have been moved to this section of struts-
config.xml in order to allow different modules in the same web
application to be configured differently. For full details on
available parameters see the struts-config_1_2.dtd or the list
below.
bufferSize - The size (in bytes) of the input buffer used
when processing file uploads. [4096] (optional)
className - Classname of configuration bean.
[org.apache.struts.config.ControllerConfig] (optional)
contentType - Default content type (and optional
character encoding) to be set on each response. May be
overridden by the Action, JSP, or other resource to which
the request is forwarded. [text/html] (optional)
forwardPattern - Replacement pattern defining how the
"path" attribute of a <forward> element is mapped to a
context-relative URL when it starts with a slash (and when
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the contextRelative property is false). This value may
consist of any combination of the following:
o $M - Replaced by the module prefix of this module.
o $P - Replaced by the "path" attribute of the selected
<forward> element.
o $$ - Causes a literal dollar sign to be rendered.
o $x - (Where "x" is any character not defined above)
Silently swallowed, reserved for future use.
If not specified, the default forwardPattern is consistent with
the previous behavior of forwards. [$M$P] (optional)
inputForward - Set to true if you want the input
attribute of <action> elements to be the name of a local or
global ActionForward, which will then be used to calculate
the ultimate URL. Set to false to treat the input parameter
of <action> elements as a module-relative path to the
resource to be used as the input form. [false] (optional)
locale - Set to true if you want a Locale object stored in
the user's session if not already present. [true] (optional)
maxFileSize - The maximum size (in bytes) of a file to
be accepted as a file upload. Can be expressed as a number
followed by a "K", "M", or "G", which are interpreted to
mean kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes, respectively.
[250M] (optional)
multipartClass - The fully qualified Java class name of
the multipart request handler class to be used with this
module.
[org.apache.struts.upload.CommonsMultipartRequestHandle
r] (optional)
nocache - Set to true if you want the controller to add
HTTP headers for defeating caching to every response from
this module. [false] (optional)
pagePattern - Replacement pattern defining how the
page attribute of custom tags using it is mapped to a
context-relative URL of the corresponding resource. This
value may consist of any combination of the following:
o $M - Replaced by the module prefix of this module.
o $P - Replaced by the "path" attribute of the selected
<forward> element.
o $$ - Causes a literal dollar sign to be rendered.
o $x - (Where "x" is any character not defined above)
Silently swallowed, reserved for future use.
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If not specified, the default pagePattern is consistent with
the previous behavior of URL calculation. [$M$P] (optional)
processorClass - The fully qualified Java class name of
the RequestProcessor subclass to be used with this module.
[org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor] (optional)
tempDir - Temporary working directory to use when
processing file uploads. [{the directory provided by the
servlet container}]
This example uses the default values for several controller
parameters. If you only want default behavior you can omit
the controller section altogether.
<controller
processorClass="org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor
"
debug="0"
contentType="text/html"/>;
+ Message Resources Configuration
Struts has built in support for internationalization (I18N). You
can define one or more <message-resources> elements for
your webapp; modules can define their own resource bundles.
Different bundles can be used simultaneously in your
application, the 'key' attribute is used to specify the desired
bundle.
className - Classname of configuration bean.
[org.apache.struts.config.MessageResourcesConfig]
(optional)
factory - Classname of MessageResourcesFactory.
[org.apache.struts.util.PropertyMessageResourcesFactory]
(optional)
key - ServletContext attribute key to store this bundle.
[org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE] (optional)
null - Set to false to display missing resource keys in
your application like '???keyname???' instead of null. [true]
(optional)
parameter - Name of the resource bundle. (required)
Example configuration:
<message-resources parameter="MyWebAppResources"
null="false" />
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This would set up a message resource bundle provided in the
file MyWebAppResources.properties under the default key.
Missing resource keys would be displayed as '???keyname???'.
+ PlugIn Configuration
Struts PlugIns are configured using the <plug-in> element
within the Struts configuration file. This element has only one
valid attribute, 'className', which is the fully qualified name of
the Java class which implements the
org.apache.struts.action.PlugIn interface.
For PlugIns that require configuration themselves, the nested
<set-property> element is available.
This is an example using the Tiles plugin:
<plug-in
className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin">
<set-property property="definitions-config"
value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml"/>
</plug-in>
+ Data Source Configuration
Besides the objects related to defining ActionMappings, the
Struts configuration may contain elements that create other
useful objects.
The <data-sources> section can be used to specify a collection
of DataSources [javax.sql.DataSource] for the use of your
application. Typically, a DataSource represents a connection
pool to a database or other persistent store. As a convenience,
the Struts DataSource manager can be used to instantiate
whatever standard pool your application may need. Of course,
if your persistence layer provides for its own connections, then
you do not need to specify a data-sources element.
Since DataSource implementations vary in what properties
need to be set, unlike other Struts configuration elements, the
data-source element does not pre-define a slate of properties.
Instead, the generic set-property feature is used to set
whatever properties your implementation may require.
Typically, these settings would include:
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A driver class name
A url to access the driver
A description
And other sundry properties.
<data-source
type="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
<!-- ... set-property elements ... -->
</data-source>
In Struts 1.2.0, the GenericDataSource has been removed,
and it is recommended that you use the Commons
BasicDataSource or other DataSource implementation instead.
In practice, if you need to use the DataSource manager, you
should use whatever DataSource implementation works best
with your container or database.
For examples of specifying a data-sources element and using
the DataSource with an Action, see the Accessing a Database
HowTo.
+ Configuring your application for modules
Very little is required in order to start taking advantage of the
Struts module feature. Just go through the following steps:
1. Prepare a config file for each module.
2. Inform the controller of your module.
3. Use actions to refer to your pages.
+ Module Configuration Files
Back in Struts 1.0, a few "boot-strap" options were placed in
the web.xml file, and the bulk of the configuration was done in
a single struts-config.xml file. Obviously, this wasn't ideal for a
team environment, since multiple users had to share the same
configuration file.
In Struts 1.1, you have two options: you can list multiple
struts-config files as a comma-delimited list, or you can
subdivide a larger application into modules.
With the advent of modules, a given module has its own
configuration file. This means each team (each module would
presumably be developed by a single team) has their own
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configuration file, and there should be a lot less contention
when trying to modify it.
+ Informing the Controller
In struts 1.0, you listed your configuration file as an
initialization parameter to the action servlet in web.xml. This is
still done in 1.1, but it's augmented a little. In order to tell the
Struts machinery about your different modules, you specify
multiple config initialization parameters, with a slight twist.
You'll still use "config" to tell the action servlet about your
"default" module, however, for each additional module, you
will list an initialization parameter named "config/module",
where module is the name of your module (this gets used
when determining which URIs fall under a given module, so
choose something meaningful!). For example:
...
<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/struts-default.xml</param-
value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>config/module1</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/struts-
module1.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
...
This says I have two modules. One happens to be the "default"
module, which has no "/module" in it's name, and one named
"module1" (config/module1). I've told the controller it can find
their respective configurations under /WEB-INF/conf (which is
where I put all my configuration files). Pretty simple!
(My struts-default.xml would be equivalent to what most folks
call struts-config.xml. I just like the symmetry of having all my
Struts module files being named struts-<module>.xml)
If you'd like to vary where the pages for each module is
stored, see the forwardPattern setting for the Controller.
+ Switching Modules
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There are two basic methods to switching from one module to
another. You can either use a forward (global or local) and
specify the contextRelative attribute with a value of true, or
you can use the built-in
org.apache.struts.actions.SwitchAction.
Here's an example of a global forward:
...
<struts-config>
...
<global-forwards>
<forward name="toModuleB"
contextRelative="true"
path="/moduleB/index.do"
redirect="true"/>
...
</global-forwards>
...
</struts-config>
You could do the same thing with a local forward declared in
an ActionMapping:
...
<struts-config>
...
<action-mappings>
...
<action ... >
<forward name="success"
contextRelative="true"
path="/moduleB/index.do"
redirect="true"/>
</action>
...
</action-mappings>
...
</struts-config>
Finally, you could use org.apache.struts.actions.SwitchAction,
like so:
...
<action-mappings>
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<action path="/toModule"
type="org.apache.struts.actions.SwitchAction"/>
...
</action-mappings>
...
Now, to change to ModuleB, we would use a URI like this:
http://localhost:8080/toModule.do?
prefix=/moduleB&page=/index.do
If you are using the "default" module as well as "named"
modules (like "/moduleB"), you can switch back to the
"default" module with a URI like this:
http://localhost:8080/toModule.do?prefix=&page=/index.do
That's all there is to it! Happy module-switching!
+ The Web Application Deployment Descriptor
The final step in setting up the application is to configure the
application deployment descriptor (stored in file WEB-
INF/web.xml) to include all the Struts components that are
required. Using the deployment descriptor for the example
application as a guide, we see that the following entries need
to be created or modified.
+ Configure the Action Servlet Instance
Add an entry defining the action servlet itself, along with the
appropriate initialization parameters. Such an entry might look
like this:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<servlet-
class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-
class>
<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-
value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
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The initialization parameters supported by the controller
servlet are described below. (You can also find these details in
the Javadocs for the ActionServlet class.) Square brackets
describe the default values that are assumed if you do not
provide a value for that initialization parameter.
config - Context-relative path to the XML resource
containing the configuration information for the default
module. This may also be a comma-delimited list of
configuration files. Each file is loaded in turn, and its objects
are appended to the internal data structure. [/WEB-
INF/struts-config.xml].
Warning - If you define an object of the same name in more
than one configuration file, the last one loaded quietly wins.
config/${module} - Context-relative path to the XML
resource containing the configuration information for the
application module that will use the specified prefix (/$
{module}). This can be repeated as many times as required
for multiple application modules. (Since Struts 1.1)
convertNull - Force simulation of the Struts 1.0 behavior
when populating forms. If set to true, the numeric Java
wrapper class types (like java.lang.Integer) will default to
null (rather than 0). (Since Struts 1.1) [false]
rulesets - Comma-delimited list of fully qualified
classnames of additional
org.apache.commons.digester.RuleSet instances that should
be added to the Digester that will be processing struts-
config.xml files. By default, only the RuleSet for the
standard configuration elements is loaded. (Since Struts
1.1)
validating - Should we use a validating XML parser to
process the configuration file (strongly recommended)?
[true]
Warning - Struts will not operate correctly if you define more
than one <servlet> element for a controller servlet, or a
subclass of the standard controller servlet class. The controller
servlet MUST be a web application wide singleton.
+ Configure the Action Servlet Mapping
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Note: The material in this section is not specific to Struts. The
configuration of servlet mappings is defined in the Java Servlet
Specification. This section describes the most common means
of configuring a Struts application.
There are two common approaches to defining the URLs that
will be processed by the controller servlet - prefix matching
and extension matching. An appropriate mapping entry for
each approach will be described below.
Prefix matching means that you want all URLs that start (after
the context path part) with a particular value to be passed to
this servlet. Such an entry might look like this:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/do/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
which means that a request URI to match the /logon path
described earlier might look like this:
http://www.mycompany.com/myapplication/do/logon
where /myapplication is the context path under which your
application is deployed.
Extension mapping, on the other hand, matches request URIs
to the action servlet based on the fact that the URI ends with a
period followed by a defined set of characters. For example,
the JSP processing servlet is mapped to the *.jsp pattern so
that it is called to process every JSP page that is requested. To
use the *.do extension (which implies "do something"), the
mapping entry would look like this:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
and a request URI to match the /logon path described earlier
might look like this:
http://www.mycompany.com/myapplication/logon.do
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Warning - Struts will not operate correctly if you define more
than one <servlet-mapping> element for the controller
servlet.
Warning - If you are using the new module support in Struts
1.1, you should be aware that only extension mapping is
supported.
+ Configure the Struts Tag Libraries
Next, you must add an entry defining the Struts tag library.
The struts-bean taglib contains tags useful in accessing beans
and their properties, as well as defining new beans (based on
these accesses) that are accessible to the remainder of the
page via scripting variables and page scope attributes.
Convenient mechanisms to create new beans based on the
value of request cookies, headers, and parameters are also
provided.
The struts-html taglib contains tags used to create struts input
forms, as well as other tags generally useful in the creation of
HTML-based user interfaces.
The struts-logic taglib contains tags that are useful in
managing conditional generation of output text, looping over
object collections for repetitive generation of output text, and
application flow management.
The struts-tiles taglib contains tags used for combining various
view components, called "tiles", into a final composite view.
The struts-nested taglib is an extension of other struts taglibs
that allows the use of nested beans.
Below is how you would define all taglibs for use within your
application. In practice, you would only specify the taglibs that
your application uses:
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/struts-bean</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld</taglib-
location>
</taglib>
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<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/struts-html</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld</taglib-
location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/struts-logic</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld</taglib-
location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/struts-tiles</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld</taglib-
location>
</taglib>
This tells the JSP system where to find the tag library
descriptor for this library (in your application's WEB-INF
directory, instead of out on the Internet somewhere).
+ Configure the Struts Tag Libraries (Servlet 2.3)
Servlet 2.3 Users only: The Servlet 2.3 specification
simplifies the deployment and configuration of tag libraries.
The instructions above will work on older containers as well as
2.3 containers (Struts only requires a servlet 2.2 container);
however, if you're using a 2.3 container such as Tomcat 4.x,
you can take advantage of a simplified deployment.
All that's required to install the struts tag libraries is to copy
struts.jar into your /WEB-INF/lib directory and reference the
tags in your code like this:
<%@ taglib uri=http://struts.apache.org/tags-html
prefix="html" %>
Note that you must use the full uri defined in the various
struts tlds so that the container knows where to find the tag's
class files. You don't have to alter your web.xml file or copy
tlds into any application directories.
+ Add Struts Components To Your Application
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To use Struts, you must copy the .tld files that you require into
your WEB-INF directory, and copy struts.jar (and all of the
commons-*.jar files) into your WEB-INF/lib directory.
+ Struts Bean Tags
This tag library contains tags useful in accessing beans and
their properties, as well as defining new beans (based on these
accesses) that are accessible to the remainder of the page via
scripting variables and page scope attributes. Convenient
mechanisms to create new beans based on the value of
request cookies, headers, and parameters are also provided.
Many of the tags in this tag library will throw a JspException at
runtime when they are utilized incorrectly (such as when you
specify an invalid combination of tag attributes). JSP allows
you to declare an "error page" in the <%@ page %> directive.
If you wish to process the actual exception that caused the
problem, it is passed to the error page as a request attribute
under key org.apache.struts.action.EXCEPTION.
If you are viewing this page from within the Struts
Documentation Application (or online at
http://struts.apache.org/), you can learn more about using
these tags in the Bean Tags Developer's Guide.
Tag Description
cookie Define a scripting variable based on the value(s) of the
specified request cookie.
define Define a scripting variable based on the value(s) of the
specified bean property.
header Load the response from a dynamic application request
and make it available as a bean
include Render an internationalized message string to the
response.
message Expose a specified item from the page context as
a bean.
page Define a scripting variable based on the value(s) of the
specified request parameter.
parameter Load a web application resource and make it
available as a bean.
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resource Define a bean containing the number of elements
in a Collection or Map.
size Expose a named Struts internal configuration
object as a bean.
struts Render the value of the specified bean property to the
current JspWriter.
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Struts
The core of the Struts framework is a flexible control layer based
on standard technologies like Java Servlets, JavaBeans,
ResourceBundles, and XML, as well as various Jakarta Commons
packages. Struts encourages application architectures based on
the Model 2 approach, a variation of the classic Model-View-
Controller (MVC) design paradigm.
Struts provides its own Controller component and integrates with
other technologies to provide the Model and the View. For the
Model, Struts can interact with standard data access
technologies, like JDBC and EJB, as well as most any third-party
packages, like Hibernate, iBATIS, or Object Relational Bridge. For
the View, Struts works well with JavaServer Pages, including
JSTL and JSF, as well as Velocity Templates, XSLT, and other
presentation systems.
The Struts framework provides the invisible underpinnings every
professional web application needs to survive. Struts helps you
create an extensible development environment for your
application, based on published standards and proven design
patterns.
+ What is the difference between Struts 1.0 and Struts 1.1
The new features added to Struts 1.1 are
22. RequestProcessor class
23. Method perform() replaced by execute() in Struts
base Action Class
24. Changes to web.xml and struts-config.xml
25. Declarative exception handling
26. Dynamic ActionForms
27. Plug-ins
28. Multiple Application Modules
29. Nested Tags
30. The Struts Validator
31. Change to the ORO package
32. Change to Commons logging
33. Removal of Admin actions
34. Deprecation of the GenericDataSource
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+ Explain Struts navigation flow
A client requests a path that matches the Action URI pattern.
The container passes the request to the ActionServlet. If this is
a modular application, the ActionServlet selects the
appropriate module. The ActionServlet looks up the mapping
for the path. If the mapping specifies a form bean, the
ActionServlet sees if there is one already or creates one. If a
form bean is in play, the ActionServlet resets and populates it
from the HTTP request. If the mapping has the validate
property set to true, it calls validate on the form bean. If it
fails, the servlet forwards to the path specified by the input
property and this control flow ends. If the mapping specifies
an Action type, it is reused if it already exists or instantiated.
The Actions perform or execute method is called and passed
the instantiated form bean (or null). The Action may populate
the form bean, call business objects, and do whatever else is
needed. The Action returns an ActionForward to the
ActionServlet. If the ActionForward is to another Action URI,
we begin again; otherwise, its off to a display page or some
other resource. Most often, it is a JSP, in which case Jasper, or
the equivalent (not Struts), renders the page.
+ What is the difference between ActionForm and
DynaActionForm
In struts 1.0, action form is used to populate the html tags in
jsp using struts custom tag.when the java code changes, the
change in action class is needed. To avoid the chages in struts
1.1 dyna action form is introduced.This can be used to develop
using xml.The dyna action form bloats up with the struts-
config.xml based definetion.
+ What is DispatchAction
The DispatchAction class is used to group related actions into
one class. DispatchAction is an abstract class, so you must
override it to use it. It extends the Action class.
It should be noted that you dont have to use the
DispatchAction to group multiple actions into one Action class.
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You could just use a hidden field that you inspect to delegate
to member() methods inside of your action.
+ How to call ejb from Struts
use the Service Locator patter to look up the ejbs
Or You can use InitialContext and get the home interface.
+ What are the various Struts tag libraries
struts-html tag library - used for creating dynamic HTML
user interfaces and forms. struts-bean tag library - provides
substantial enhancements to the basic capability provided by.
struts-logic tag library - can manage conditional generation
of output text, looping over object collections for repetitive
generation of output text, and application flow management.
struts-template tag library - contains tags that are useful in
creating dynamic JSP templates for pages which share a
common format.
+ What is the difference between ActionErrors and
ActionMessages
The difference between the classes is zero - all behavior in
ActionErrors was pushed up into ActionMessages and all
behavior in ActionError was pushed up into ActionMessage.
This was done in the attempt to clearly signal that these
classes can be used to pass any kind of messages from the
controller to the view - errors being only one kind of message.
+ How you will handle errors and exceptions using Struts
There are various ways to handle exception:
1. To handle errors server side validation can be used using
ActionErrors classes can be used.
2. The exceptions can be wrapped across different layers to
show a user showable exception.
3. using validators
+ How you will save the data across different pages for a
particular client request using Struts
Several ways. The similar to the ways session tracking is
enabled. Using cookies, URL-rewriting, SSLSession, and
possibilty threw in the database.
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+ What we will define in Struts-config.xml file. And
explain their purpose
The main control file in the Struts framework is the struts-
config.xml XML file, where action mappings are specified. This
file's structure is described by the struts-config DTD file, which
is defined at http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/. A copy of the
DTD can be found on the /docs/dtds subdirectory of the
framework's installation root directory. The top-level element
is struts-config. Basically, it consists of the following elements:
data-sources - A set of data-source elements, describing
parameters needed to instantiate JDBC 2.0 Standard Extension
DataSource objects
form-beans - A set of form-bean elements that describe the
form beans that this application uses
global-forwards - A set of forward elements describing
general available forward URIs
action-mappings - A set of action elements describing a
request-to-action mapping
+ What is the purpose of tiles-def.xml file,
resourcebundle.properties file, validation.xml file?
The Tiles Framework is an advanced version of that comes
bundled with the Struts Webapp framework. Its purpose is
reduce the duplication between jsp pages as well as make
layouts flexible and easy to maintain. It integrates with Struts
using the concept of named views or definitions.
+ What is Action Class. What are the methods in Action
class?
Action class is request handler in Struts. we will extend the
Action class and over ride the execute() method in which we
will specify the business logic to be performed.
+ Explain about token feature in Struts?
Tokens are used to check for invalid path for by the uer:
1. if the user presses back button and submits the same page
2. or if the user refreshes the page which will result to the
resubmit of the previous action and might lead to
unstabality..
to solve the abv probs we use tokens
1. in previous action type saveTokens(HttpServletreuest)
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2. in current action check for duplication but if(!isValidToken())
+ What part of MVC does Struts represent?
Bad question. Struts is a framework which supports the MVC
pattern.
+ What are the core classes of struts?
The core classes of struts are ActionForm, Action,
ActionMapping, ActionForward etc.
+ What are the Important Components of Struts?
1. Action Servlet
2. Action Classes
3. Action Form
4. Validator Framework
5. Message Resources
6. Struts Configuration XML Files
7. View components like JSP
+ What is Struts?
Struts is a web page development framework and an open
source software that helps developers build web applications
quickly and easily. Struts combines Java Servlets, Java Server
Pages, custom tags, and message resources into a unified
framework. It is a cooperative, synergistic platform, suitable
for development teams, independent developers, and
everyone between.
+ How is the MVC design pattern used in Struts
framework?
In the MVC design pattern, application flow is mediated by a
central Controller. The Controller delegates requests to an
appropriate handler. The handlers are tied to a Model, and
each handler acts as an adapter between the request and the
Model. The Model represents, or encapsulates, an application's
business logic or state. Control is usually then forwarded back
through the Controller to the appropriate View. The forwarding
can be determined by consulting a set of mappings, usually
loaded from a database or configuration file. This provides a
loose coupling between the View and Model, which can make
an application significantly easier to create and maintain.
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Controller - Servlet controller which supplied by Struts itself;
View - what you can see on the screen, a JSP page and
presentation components;
Model - System state and a business logic JavaBeans.
+ Who makes the Struts?
Struts is hosted by the Apache Software Foundation(ASF) as
part of its Jakarta project, like Tomcat, Ant and Velocity.
+ Why it called Struts?
Because the designers want to remind us of the invisible
underpinnings that hold up our houses, buildings, bridges, and
ourselves when we are on stilts. This excellent description of
Struts reflect the role the Struts plays in developing web
applications.
+ Do we need to pay the Struts if being used in
commercial purpose?
No. Struts is available for commercial use at no charge under
the Apache Software License. You can also integrate the Struts
components into your own framework just as if they were
writtern in house without any red tape, fees, or other hassles.
+ What are the core classes of Struts?
Action, ActionForm, ActionServlet, ActionMapping,
ActionForward are basic classes of Structs.
+ What is the design role played by Struts?
The role played by Structs is controller in
Model/View/Controller(MVC) style. The View is played by JSP
and Model is played by JDBC or generic data source classes.
The Struts controller is a set of programmable components
that allow developers to define exactly how the application
interacts with the user.
+ How Struts control data flow?
Struts implements the MVC/Layers pattern through the use of
ActionForwards and ActionMappings to keep control-flow
decisions out of presentation layer.
+ What configuration files are used in Struts?
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- ApplicationResourcesl.properties
- struts-config.xml
These two files are used to bridge the gap between the
Controller and the Model.
+ What helpers in the form of JSP pages are provided in
Struts framework?
- struts-html.tld
- struts-bean.tld
- struts-logic.tld
+ Is Struts efficient?
- The Struts is not only thread-safe but thread-
dependent(instantiates each Action once and allows other
requests to be threaded through the original object.
- ActionForm beans minimize subclass code and shorten
subclass hierarchies
- The Struts tag libraries provide general-purpose functionality
- The Struts components are reusable by the application
- The Struts localization strategies reduce the need for
redundant JSPs
- The Struts is designed with an open architecture
- subclass available
- The Struts is lightweight (5 core packages, 5 tag libraries)
- The Struts is open source and well documented (code to be
examined easily)
- The Struts is model neutral
+ What is Jakarta Struts Framework?
Jakarta Struts is open source implementation of MVC (Model-
View-Controller) pattern for the development of web based
applications. Jakarta Struts is robust architecture and can be
used for the development of application of any size. Struts
framework makes it much easier to design scalable, reliable
Web applications with Java.
+ What is ActionServlet?
The class org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet is the called
the ActionServlet. In the the Jakarta Struts Framework this
class plays the role of controller. All the requests to the server
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goes through the controller. Controller is responsible for
handling all the requests.
+ How you will make available any Message Resources
Definitions file to the Struts Framework Environment?
Message Resources Definitions file are simple .properties files
and these files contains the messages that can be used in the
struts project. Message Resources Definitions files can be
added to the struts-config.xml file through <message-
resources /> tag.
Example:
<message-resources parameter=MessageResources />
+ What is Action Class?
The Action Class is part of the Model and is a wrapper around
the business logic. The purpose of Action Class is to translate
the HttpServletRequest to the business logic. To use the
Action, we need to Subclass and overwrite the
execute() method. In the Action Class all the
database/business processing are done. It is advisable to
perform all the database related stuffs in the Action Class. The
ActionServlet (commad) passes the parameterized class to
Action Form using the execute() method. The return type of
the execute method is ActionForward which is used by the
Struts Framework to forward the request to the file as per the
value of the returned ActionForward object.
+ Write code of any Action Class?
Here is the code of Action Class that returns the ActionForward
object.
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
public class TestAction extends Action {
public ActionForward execute (
ActionMapping mapping,
ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request,
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HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
return mapping.findForward(\"testAction\");
}
}
+ What is ActionForm?
An ActionForm is a JavaBean that extends
org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm. ActionForm maintains the
session state for web application and the ActionForm object is
automatically populated on the server side with data entered
from a form on the client side.
+ What is Struts Validator Framework?
Struts Framework provides the functionality to validate the
form data. It can be use to validate the data on the users
browser as well as on the server side. Struts Framework emits
the java scripts and it can be used validate the form data on
the client browser. Server side validation of form can be
accomplished by sub classing your From Bean with
DynaValidatorForm class. The Validator framework was
developed by David Winterfeldt as third-party add-on to
Struts. Now the Validator framework is a part of Jakarta
Commons project and it can be used with or without Struts.
The Validator framework comes integrated with the Struts
Framework and can be used without doing any extra settings.
+ Give the Details of XML files used in Validator
Framework?
The Validator Framework uses two XML configuration files
validator-rules.xml and validation.xml. The validator-rules.xml
defines the standard validation routines, these are reusable
and used in validation.xml. to define the form specific
validations. The validation.xml defines the validations applied
to a form bean.
+ How you will display validation fail errors on jsp page?
The following tag displays all the errors:
<html:errors/>
How you will enable front-end validation based on the xml in
validation.xml?
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The <html:javascript> tag to allow front-end validation based
on the xml in validation.xml.
Example:
<html:javascript formName=logonForm
dynamicJavascript=true staticJavascript=true />
generates the client side java script for the form logonForm
as defined in the validation.xml file. The <html:javascript>
when added in the jsp file generates the client site validation
script.
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EJB Enterprise Java Beans
+ Agenda
What is an EJB
Bean Basics
Component Contract
Bean Varieties
Session Beans
Entity Beans
Message Driven Beans
+ What is an EJB ?
Bean is a component
A server-side component
Contains business logic that operates on some
temporary data or permanent database
Is customizable to the target environment
Is re-usable
Is truly platform-independent
+ So, what is an EJB?
Ready-to-use Java component
Being Java implies portability, inter-operability
Can be assembled into a distributed multi-tier
application
Handles threading, transactions
Manages state and resources
Simplifies the development of complex enterprise
applications
+ Benefits
Pure Java implies portability
exchange components without giving away the source.
Provides interoperability
assemble components from anywhere, can all work
together.
+ Operational Benefits from EJB
Transaction management service
Distributed Transaction support
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Portability
Scalability
Integration with CORBA possible
Support from multiple vendors
+ What Does EJB Really Define?
Component architecture
Specification to write components using Java
Specification to component server developers
Contract between developer roles in a components-
based application project
The basis of components used in distributed transaction-
oriented enterprise applications.
+ The Componentized Application:
Application now consists of several re-usable
components.
Instances of components created at run-time for a
client.
Common object for all instances of the component,
usually called the Factory Object
EJB calls it Home Object
Common place where client can locate this Home
Object
Objects located from a remote client through JNDI
(Java Naming and Directory Interface) service.
+ Application Server provides
JNDI based naming service
Implementation of Bean, Home and Remote
Complete Life Cycle Management
Resource pooling - beans, db connections, threads...
Object persistence
Transaction management
Secured access to beans
Scalability and availability
+ EJB: Core of J2EE Architecture
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J2EE Server
EJB
Container
EJB
Container
Web
Container
JSP
Servlets
Bean
s
Bean
s
rmi HTML
client
http
Business logic
EJB Component
server
Java
Client
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+ The Architecture Scenario
Application Responsibilities
- Create individual business and web components.
- Assemble these components into an application.
- Deploy application on an application server.
- Run application on target environment.
+ EJB Architecture Roles: Appointed for Responsibilities
Six roles in application development and deployment
life cycle
Bean Provider
Application Assembler
Server Provider
Container Provider
Deployer
System Administrator
Each role performed by a different party.
Product of one role compatible with another.
Creating the Bean Instance
Look up for the Home Object through JNDI
Get the reference
Call create() method
The server generates the code for remote access using
RMI (Remote Method Invocation).
The RMI code in the form of stub and skeleton:
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establishes connection,
marshals/unmarshals
places remote method calls
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+ Bean Instance
+ Component Contract :
Client-view contract
Component contract
EJB-jar file
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Client View
Contract
Client View
Contract
Container
Container
Component Server
Component Server
Bean Instance
Bean Instance
Bean class files, interfaces
Bean class files, interfaces
Deployment descriptor
Deployment descriptor
EJB-jar
EJB-jar
Client
Name Server
Name Server
Home
Object
O Client calls create()
O
O
O Bean places reference to
Home Object under JNDI
Naming service
O
O Client locates Home Object
O
O Bean Instance created Bean
Component Server
Component Server
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+ Client-view contract:
Contract between client and container
Uniform application development model for greater re-
use of components
View sharing by local and remote programs
The Client can be:
another EJB deployed in same or another container
a Java program, an applet or a Servlet
mapped to non-Java clients like CORBA clients
+ Component contract:
Between an EJB and the container it is hosted by
This contract needs responsibilities to be shared by:
the bean provider
the container provider
+ Bean providers responsibility:
Implement business methods in the bean
Implement ejbCreate, ejbPostCreate and ejbRemove
methods, and ejbFind method (in the case of bean managed
persistence)
Define home and remote interfaces of the bean
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Container providers
responsibilities
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Implement container callbacks defined in the
javax.ejb.Session bean interface
optionally the javax.ejb.SessionSynchronization interface
Implement container callbacks defined in
javax.ejb.EntityBean interfaces for entities
Avoid programming practices that interfere with
containers runtime management of bean instances
+ Container providers responsibility:
Delegate client method invocations to the business
methods
Invoke appropriate methods during an EJB object
creation, removal and lookup
Provide classes that implement the home and remote
interfaces of the bean
Invoke javax.ejb.SessionBean interface and
SessionSynchronization interface callbacks at appropriate
times
Invoke javax.ejb.EntityBean interface for entities and
callbacks at appropriate times
Implement persistence for entity beans with container
managed persistence
Provide javax.ejb.SessionContext and
javax.ejb.EntityContext for session and entity bean
instances, obtain the information from container
Provide JNDI context with the beans environment to
the bean instances
Manage transaction, security and exception for beans
+ Ejb-jar file
Standard format used by EJB tools for packaging
(assembling) beans along with declarative information
Contract between bean provider and application
assembler, and between application assembler and
application deployer
The file includes:
Java class files of the beans alo
Finally, the Big Picture
+ Bean Varieties
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Three Types of Beans:
Session Beans: Short lived and last during a session.
Entity Beans: Long lived and persist throughout.
Message Driven Beans: Asynchronous Message Consumers
Asynchronous.
+ Session Beans
A session object is a non-persistent object that
implements some business logic running on the server.
Executes on behalf of a single client.
Can be transaction aware.
Does not represent directly shared data in the
database, although it may access and update such data.
Is relatively short-lived.
Is removed when the EJB container crashes. The client
has to re-establish a new session object to continue
computation
+ Types of Session Beans
There are two types of session beans:
Stateless
Stateful
Message Consumers
+ Clients view of a Session Bean:
A client accesses a session object through the session
beans Remote Interface or Local Interface.
Each session object has an identity which, in general,
does not survive a crash
Locating a session beans home interface
Remote Home interface
Context initialContext = new InitialContext();
CartHome cartHome = (CartHome)
javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(initialContext.loo
kup(java:comp/env/ejb/cart), CartHome.class);
Local Home Interface
Context initialContext = new InitialContext();
CartHome cartHome = (CartHome)
initialContext.lookup(java:comp/env/ejb/cart);
+ JNDI: used to locate Remote Objects created by bean.
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portableRemoteObject Class: It uses an Object return by
Lookup().
narrow() -> Call the create() of HomeInterface.
IntialContext Class:
Lookup() -> Searches and locate the distributed Objects.
+ Session Beans Local Home Interface:
object that implements is called a session
EJBLocalHome object.
Create a new session object.
Remove a session object.
+ Session Beans Remote Home Interface
object that implements is called a session EJBHome
object.
Create a session object
Remove a session object
+ Session Beans Local Interface
Instances of a session beans remote interface are
called session EJBObjects
business logic methods of the object.
+ Session Beans Local Home Interface
instances of a session beans local interface are called
session EJBLocalObjects
business logic methods of the object
Creating an EJB Object
Home Interface defines one or more create() methods
Arguments of the create methods are typically used to
initialize the state of the created session object
public interface CartHome extends javax.ejb.EJBHome {
Cart create(String customerName, String account) throws
RemoteException, BadAccountException,
CreateException;
}
cartHome.create(John, 7506);
+ EJBObject or EJBLocalObject
Client never directly accesses instances of a Session
Beans class
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Client uses Session Beans Remote Interface or Remote
Home Interface to access its instance
The class that implements the Session Beans Remote
Interface or Remote Home Interface is provided by the
container.
+ Session Object Identity
Session Objects are meant to be private resources of
the client that created them
Session Objects, from the clients perspective, appear
anonymous
Session Beans Home Interface must not define finder
methods
Stateful Session Beans:
A stateful session object has a unique identity that is
assigned by the container at the time of creation.
A client can determine if two object references refer to the
same session object by invoking the isIdentical(EJBObject
otherEJBObject) method on one of the references.
Stateless Session Beans:
All session objects of the same stateless session bean, within
the same home have the same object identity assigned by the
container.
isIdentical(EJBObject otherEJBObject) method always
returns true.
+ Container Responsibilities:
Manages the lifecycle of session bean instances.
Notifies instances when bean action may be
necessary .
Provides necessary services to ensure session bean
implementation is scalable and can support several clients.
+ Activation and Passivation:
Session bean container may temporarily transfer state
of an idle stateful session bean instance to some form of
secondary storage.
Transfer from working set to secondary storage is
called instance passivation.
Transfer back from the secondary storage to the
instance variables is called instance activation.
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+ Entity Beans
Long Live Entity Beans!
A component that represents an object-oriented view
of some entities stored in a persistent storage like a
database or an enterprise application.
From its creation until its destruction, an entity object
lives in a container.
Transparent to the client, the Container provides
security, concurrency, transactions, persistence, and other
services to support the Entity Beans functioning
Cainer Managed Persistence versus Bean Managed
Persistence
Multiple clients can access an entity object concurrently
Container hosting the Entity Bean synchronizes access
to the entity objects state using transactions
Each entity object has an identity which usually
survives a transaction crash
Object identity is implemented by the container with
help from the enterprise bean class
Multiple enterprise beans can be deployed in a
Container
+ Remote Clients:
Accesses an entity bean through the entity beans
remote and remote home interfaces
Implements EJBObject and EJBHome Interfaces
Location Independent
Potentially Expensive, Network Latency
Useful for coarse grained component access
+ Local Clients:
Local client is a client that is collocated with the entity
bean and which may be tightly coupled to the bean.
Implements EJBLocalObject and EJBLocalHome
Interfaces
Same JVM
Enterprise bean can-not be deployed on a node
different from that of its client Restricts distribution of
components.
Better supports fine-grained component access
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+ Locating the Entity Bean:
Location of EJB Container is usually transparent to
Client
Client locates Entity Beans Home Interface using JNDI
Example
Context initialContext = new InitialContext();
AccountHome accountHome = (AccountHome)
initialContext.lookup(java:comp/env/ejb/accounts);
Entity Beans Remote Home Interface
Container provides the implementation of the Remote
Home Interface for each Entity Bean deployed in the
container
Container makes the Remote Home Interface of all
Entity Beans deployed in it accessible to Clients through
JNDI
The object that implements an Entity Beans Remote
Home Interface is called an EJBHome object
Entity Beans Remote Home Interface
Create new entity objects within the home
Find existing entity objects within the home
Remove an entity object from the home
+ Create Methods:
Entity Beans Remote Home Interface can define
multiple create() methods, each defining a way of creating
an entity object
Arguments of create() initialize the state of the entity
object
Return type of a create() method is Entity Beans
Remote Interface
The throws clause of every create() method includes
the java.rmi.RemoteException and
javax.ejb.CreateException
+ finder Methods
Entity Beans Home Interface defines many finder
methods
Name of each finder method starts with the prefix
find
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Arguments of a finder method are used by the Entity
Bean implementation to locate requested entity objects
Return type of a finder method must be the Entity
Beans Remote Interface, or a collection of Remote
Interfaces
The throws clause of every finder method includes the
java.rmi.RemoteException and javax.ejb.FinderException
+ Entity Beans Remote Interface
Client accesses an entity object through Entity Beans
Remote Interface
Entity beans Remote Interface must extend
javax.ejb.EJBObject interface
Remote Interface defines business methods which are
callable by clients
The container provides the implementation of the
methods defined in the javax.ejb.EJBObject interface
Only business methods are delegated to the instances
of the enterprise bean class
+ Entity Beans Local Home Interface
must extend the javax.ejb.EJBLocalHome interface
Each method must be one of the:
Create methods
Find methods
Home methods
+ Entity Beans Local Interface
Local client can access an entity object through the
entity beans local interface.
must extend the javax.ejb.EJBLocalObject interface.
defines the business methods callable by local clients.
+ Persistence Management
Data access protocol for transferring state of the entity
between the Entity Bean instances and the database is
referred to as object persistence
There are two ways to manage this persistence during
an applications lifetime
Bean-managed
Container-managed
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+ Bean Managed Persistence:
Entity Bean provider writes database access calls
directly into the enterprise bean class Container Managed
Persistence
Bean Provider need not write database calls in the
bean
Container providers tools generate database access
calls at deployment time
Advantage: Entity Bean can be mostly independent from the
data source in which the entity is stored
Disadvantage: Sophisticated tools are needed at deployment
time to map Entity Bean fields to data source
+ EJB QL
Need for standardizing queries
Why not SQL?
EJB QL: EJB Query Language
Specification language
Based on the CMP Data Model (Abstract Persistence
Schema)
Compiled to a target language: SQL
EJB QL Example
SELECT OBJECT(l) From OrderBean o, in(o.lineItems) l
SELECT l.LINEITEM_ID FROM LINEITEMEJBTABLE l,
ORDEREJBTABLE o WHERE (l.ORDER_ID = o.ORDER_ID )
SELECT OBJECT(o) FROM OrderBean o WHERE
o.creditCard.expires = '03/05'"
SELECT o.ORDER_ID FROM CREDITCARDEJBTABLE a_1,
ORDEREJBTABLE o WHERE ((a_1.EXPIRES='03/05' AND
o.CREDITCARD_ID = a_1.CREDITCARD_ID ))
+ EJB QL Example
SELECT c.address
FROM CustomerBeanSchema c
WHERE c.iD=?1 AND c.firstName=?2
SELECT ADDRESS.ID
FROM ADDRESS, CUSTOMER
WHERE CUSTOMER.CUSTOMERID=?
AND CUSTOMER.FIRSTNAME=?
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AND CUSTOMER.CUSTOMERID = ADDRESS.CUSTOMERID
+ EJB QL: Deployment Descriptor
<query>
<description>Method finds large orders</description>
<query-method>
<method-name>findAllCustomers</method-name>
<method-params/>
</query-method>
<ejb-ql>SELECT OBJECT(c) FROM CustomerBeanSchema
c</ejb-ql>
</query>
+ Home Business Methods
Methods in the Home Interface
Implementation provided by Bean Provider with
matching ejbHome<method> in the Bean
Exposed to the Client View
Not specific to any Bean instance
Select Methods
Defined as abstract method in the Bean class
ejbSelect<method>
Special type of a query method
Specified using a EJB QL statement
Not exposed to the Client View
Usually called from a business method
+ Example of EJB 1.1 CMP Bean
public class AccountBean implements EntityBean {
// Bean Instance Variables
public long account_number;
public java.lang.String customer_name;
public double balance;
// Business Methods
public void credit ( double amount ) {
balance += amount;
}
public void debit ( double amount ) {
balance -= amount;
}
}
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+ Example of EJB 2.0 CMP Bean
public abstract class AccountBean implements EntityBean {
// Virtual Fields
public abstract long getAccount_number();
public abstract void setAccount_number(long
account_number);
public abstract java.lang.String getCustomer_name();
public abstract void setCustomer_name(String
customer_name);
public abstract double getBalance();
public abstract void setBalance(double balance);
// Business Method
public void credit (double amount) {
double balance = getBalance();
balance += amount;
setBalance(balance);
}
}
+ Abstract Schema : Deployment Descriptor
<abstract-schema-name>CustomerBeanSchema</abstract-
schema-name>
<cmp-field>
<description>id of the customer</description>
<field-name>iD</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<description>First name of the customer</description>
<field-name>firstName</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<cmp-field>
<description>Last name of the customer</description>
<field-name>lastName</field-name>
</cmp-field>
<primkey-field>iD</primkey-field>
+ Container Managed Relationships:
Container Managed Relationships <cmr-field>
Bean-Bean, Bean-Dependent, Dependent-Dependent
Defined using Abstract Accessor Methods
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Unidirectional or Bi-directional
LineItem Product
Student Course
Cardinality
One to One
One to Many
Many to One
Many to Many
+ Example Entity Bean: Order
public abstract OrderBean extends Entity Bean {
// Virtual Fileds <cmp-fields>
public abstract Long getOrderID();
public abstract void setOrderID(Long orderID);
// Virtual Fields <cmr-fields>
public abstract Address getShipingAddress();
public abstract void setShipingAddress (Address address);
public abstract Collection getLineItems();
public abstract void setLineItems (Collection lineItems);
}
+ Example Entity Bean: Product
public abstract OrderBean extends Entity Bean {
// Virtual Fields <cmp-field>
public abstract Long getProductID();
public abstract void setProductID(Long orderID);
// Virtual Fields <cmp-field>
public abstract String getProductCategory();
public abstract void setProductCategory (String category);
// NO Relationship Fields
}
+ Relationships: Deployment Descriptor
<ejb-relation>
<description>ONE-TO-ONE: Customer and
Address</description>
<ejb-relation-name>Customer-Address</ejb-relation-
name>
<ejb-relationship-role>
<ejb-relationship-role-name>customer has one
addresss</ejb-relationship-role-name>
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<multiplicity>one</multiplicity>
<relationship-role-source>
<ejb-name>CustomerBean</ejb-name>
</relationship-role-source>
<cmr-field>
<cmr-field-name>address</cmr-field-name>
</cmr-field>
</ejb-relationship-role>
<ejb-relationship-role>
<ejb-relationship-role-name>Address belong to the
Customer</ejb-relationship-role-name>
<multiplicity>one</multiplicity>
<cascade-delete/>
<relationship-role-source>
<ejb-name>AddressBean</ejb-name>
</relationship-role-source>
</ejb-relationship-role>
</ejb-relation>
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EJB
+ What is the difference between normal Java object and
EJB?
Java Object: It's a reusable componet
EJB: is reusable and deployable component which can be
deployed in any container. EJB is a distributed component
used to develop business applications. Container provides
runtime environment for EJBs. EJB is an Java object
implemented according EJB specification. Deployability is a
feature.
+ What is the difference between JavaBean and EJB?
Java Beans: is intra-process component, JavaBeans is
particularly well-suited for asynchronous, intra-application
communications among software.
EJB: is an Inter-Process component.
+ What is EJB?
Enterprise Java Bean is a specification for server-side
scalable,transactional and multi-user secure enterprise-level
applications. It provides a consistant component architecture
for creating distributed n-tier middleware.
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a technology that based on J2EE
platform. EJBs are server-side components. EJB are used to
develop the distributed, transactional and secure applications
based on Java technology.
+ What is Session Bean. What are the various types of
Session Bean?
SessionBeans: They are usually associated with one client.
Each session bean is created and destroyed by the particular
EJB client that is associated with it. These beans do not
survive after system shutdown.
These Session Beans are of two types:
a) Stateful Session Beans: They maintain
conversational state between subsequest calls by a client
b) Stateful Session Beans: These beans have internal
states. They can be stored (getHandle()) and restored
(getEJBObject()) across client sessions.Since they can be
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persistence, they are also called as Persistence Session
Beans.
a) Stateless Session Bean: Consider this as a servlet
equivalent in EJB. It is just used to service clients regardless
of state and does not maintain any state.
b) Stateless Session Beans: These beans do not have
internal States. They need not be passivated. They can be
pooled into service multiple clients.
+ What is the difference between Stateful session bean
and Stateless session bean?
Stateful:
Stateful s.Beans have the passivated and
Active state which the Stateless bean does not have.
Stateful beans are also Persistent session
beans. They are designed to service business processes that
span multiple method requests or transactions.
Stateful session beans remembers the
previous requests and reponses.
Stateful session beans does not have pooling
concept.
Stateful Session Beans can retain their state
on behave of an individual client.
Stateful Session Beans can be passivated
and reuses them for many clients.
Stateful Session Bean has higher
performance over stateless sessiob bean as they are pooled
by the application server.
Stateless:
Stateless Session Beans are designed to
service business process that last only for a single method
call or request.
Stateless session beans do not remember
the previous request and responses.
Stattless session bean instances are pooled.
Stateless Session Beans donot maintain
states.
Stateless Session Beans, client specific data
has to be pushed to the bean for each method invocation
which result in increase of network traffic.
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+ What is the life cycle of Stateful session bean?
Stateful Session Bean has three states. Does not exists,
Method Ready and Passivated states.
Like Stateless beans, when the Stateful Session Bean hasnt
been instantiated yet (so it is not an instance in memory) is it
in the Does not exists state.
Once a container creates one or more instances of a Stateful
Session Bean it sets them in a Method Ready state. In this
state it can serve requests from its clients. Like Stateless
Session Beans, a new instance is created
(Class.newInstance()), the context is passed
(setSessionContext()) and finally the bean is created with
ejbCreate().
During the life of a Stateful Session Bean, there are periods of
inactivity. In these periods, the container can set the bean to
the Passivate state. This happens through the ejbPassivate()
method. From the Passivate state the bean can be moved back
to the Method Ready state, via ejbActivate() method, or can
go directly to the Does Not Exists state with ejbRemove().
+ What is the life cycle of Stateless session bean?
Stateless session bean has only two states: Does Not Exists
and Method Ready Pool.
A bean has not yet instantiated (so it is not an instance in
memory) when it is in the Does Not Exists state.
When the EJB container needs one or more beans, it creates
and set them in the Method Ready Pool state. This happens
through the creation of a new instance (Class.newInstance()),
then it is set its context (setSessionContext()) and finally calls
the ejbCreate() method.
The ejbRemove() method is called to move a bean from the
Method Ready Pool back to Does Not Exists state.
+ What are the call back methods in Session bean?
Session bean callback methods differ whether it is Stateless or
stateful Session bean. Here they are.
Stateless Session Bean:
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1. setSessionContext()
2. ejbCreate()
3. ejbRemove()
Stateful Session Bean:
1. setSessionContext()
2. ejbCreate()
3. ejbPassivate()
4. ejbActivate()
5. ejbRemove()
+ When you will chose Stateful session bean and Stateless
session bean?
Stateful session bean is used when we need to maintain the
client state. Example of statefull session is Shoping cart site
where we need to maintain the client state.
Stateless session bean will not have a client state it will be
in pool.
To maintain the state of the bean we prefer stateful session
bean and example is to get mini statement in
ATM we need sessions to be maintained.
+ What is Entity Bean. What are the various types of
Entity Bean?
Entity bean represents the real data which is stored in the
persistent storage like Database or file system. For example,
There is a table in Database called Credit_card. This table
contains credit_card_no,first_name, last_name, ssn as colums
and there are 100 rows in the table. Here each row is
represented by one instance of the entity bean and it is found
by an unique key (primary key) credit_card_no.
There are two types of entity beans.
1. Container Managed Persistence(CMP)
2. Bean Managed Presistence(BMP)-
+ What is the difference between CMP and BMP?
CMP means Container Managed Persistence. When we write
CMP bean , we dont need to write any JDBC code to connect to
Database. The container will take care of connection our enitty
beans fields with database. The Container manages the
persistence of the bean. Absolutely no database access code is
written inside the bean class.
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BMP means Bean Managed Persistence. When we write BMP
bean, it is programmer responsiblity to write JDBC code to
connect to Database.
+ What is the lifecycle of Entity Bean?
The following steps describe the life cycle of an entity bean
instance
An entity bean instances life starts when the container creates
the instance using newInstance and then initialises it using
setEntityContext.
The instance enters the pool of available instances. Each entity
bean has its own pool. While the instance is in the available
pool, the instance is not associated with any particular entity
object identity. Any of these pooled instances may be used to
execute finder (ejbFind) or home (ejbHome) methods.
An instance transitions from the pooled state to the ready
state when the container selects that instance to service a
client call to an entity object. There are two possible
transitions from the pooled to the ready state: through the
creation of an entity (ejbCreate and ejbPostCreate) or through
the activation of an entity (ejbActivate).
When an entity bean instance is in the ready state, the
instance is associated with a specific entity object identity.
While the instance is in the ready state, the container can
synchronize the instance with its representation in the
underlying data source whenever it determines the need to
using ejbLoad and ejbStore methods. Business methods can
also be invoked zero or more times on an instance. An
ejbSelect method can be called by a business method, ejbLoad
or ejbStore method.
The container can choose to passivate an entity bean instance
within a transaction. To passivate an instance, the container
first invokes the ejbStore method to allow the instance to
prepare itself for the synchronization of the database state
with the instances state, and then the container invokes the
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ejbPassivate method to return the instance to the pooled
state.
There are three possible transitions from the ready to the
pooled state: through the ejbPassivate method, through the
ejbRemove method (when the entity is removed), and because
of a transaction rollback for ejbCreate, ejbPostCreate,or
ejbRemove.
The container can remove an instance in the pool by calling
the unsetEntityContext() method on the instance.
+ What are the call back methods in Entity bean?
Entity Bean:
1. setEntityContext()
2. ejbCreate()
3. ejbPostCreate()
4. ejbActivate()
5. ejbPassivate()
6. ejbRemove()
7. unsetEntityContext()
+ When you will choose CMP and BMP?
BMP
- Bean managed persistence
- Developer has to write persistence code for
ejbLoad(),ejbStore() for entity beans
- Should follow this approach only when its bare necessity to
write your own persistence logic.Usually container managed
persistence is quite sufficient and less error prone.
CMP
- Container managed persistence
- Developer maps the bean fields with the database fields in
the deployment descriptors.
- Developer need not provide persistence logic (JDBC) within
the bean class.
- Containiner manages the bean field to DB field
synchronization.
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The point is only ENTITY beans can have theier pesristence
mechanism as CMP or BMP. Session beans, which usually
contains workflow or business logic should never have
persistence code.Incase you choose to write persistence within
your session bean, its usefull to note that the persistence is
managed by the container BMP.Session beans cannot be CMP
and its not possibel to provide field mapping for session bean.
BMPs are much harder to develop and maintain than CMPs.All
other things are being equal,choose CMPs over BMPs for pure
maintainability.
There are limitations in the types of the data sources that may
be supported for CMPs by a container provide.Support for non
JDBC type data sources,such as CICS,are not supported by the
current CMP mapping and invocation schema.Therefore
accessing these would require a BMP.
Complex queries might not be possible with the basic EJBQL
for CMPs.So prefer BMPs for complex queries.
If relations between entity beans are established then CMPs
may be necessary.CMR has ability to define manage
relationships between entity beans.
Container will tyr to optimize the SQL code for the CMPs,so
they may be scalable entity beans than the BMPs.
BMPs may be inappropriate for larger and more performance
sesitive applications.
+ What are advantages and disadvantages of CMP and
BMP?
CMP: Container managed persistence
Advantages:
1. Easy to develop and maintain.
2. Relationships can be maintained between different entities.
3. Optimization of SQL code will be done.
4. Larger and more performance applications can be done.
Disadvantages:
1. Will not support for some nonJDBC data sources,i.e,CICS.
2. Complex queries cannot be developed with EJBQL.
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BMP: Bean managed persistence
Advantages:
1. Support for nonJDBC data sources.
2. Complex queries can be build.
Disadvantages:
1. Hard to develop and maintain.
2. We cannot maintain the relationships between different
entities.
3. Optimization of SQL code cannot be done by the
container,because bean it self contains the code.
4. Not appropriate for larger and complex applications.
+ What is difference between EJB 1.1 and EJB 2.0?
EJB 2.0 adds the local beans, which are accessible only from
within the JVM where beans are running in.
In EJB 1.1, we had to implement remote client views for all
these beans, even if we had no remote clients.
+ What is Message Driven Bean?
Message Driven Bean (MDB) is an enterprise bean which runs
inside the EJB container and it acts as Listener for the JMS
asynchronous message . It does not have Home and Remote
interface as Session or Entity bean. It is called by container
when container receives JMS asynchronous message. MDB has
to implement MessageListener which has a method
onMessage(Message msg). When the container calls the MDB
it passes the message to onMesage() method and then MDB
process that message.
+ What is the life cycle of MDB?
The lifetime of an MDB instance is controlled by the container.
Only two states exist: Does not exist and Ready , as illustrated
in the following figure:
The life of an MDB instance starts when the container invokes
newInstance() on the MDB class to create a new instance.
Next, the container calls setMessageDrivenContext() followed
by ejbCreate() on the instance. The bean then enters the
Ready state and is ready to consume messages.
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When a message arrives for the bean, the container invokes
the onMessage() method of one of the available instances,
passing a Message object in argument. Message s can be
consumed and processed concurrently by using multiple
instances of the same type.
The container invokes ejbRemove() on the bean instance when
it no longer needs the instance. The bean instance can perform
clean up operations here.
+ What is local interface. How values will be passed?
If Client and EJB classes are in the same machine (Same JVM)
then we can use Local linterface instead of Remote interface.
Since Client and EJB are in same JVM, values are passed by
referance.
+ What is the difference between local interface and
remote interface?
We can describe the following common rules for choosing
whether to use remote client view or local client view:
When you will potentially use a distributed environment (if
your enterprise bean should be independent of its deployment
place), you should obviously choose remote client view.
Use remote client view when you need to be sure that
parameters passed between your EJB and the client (and/or
other enterprise beans) should be passed "by value" instead of
"by reference." With pass-by-value, the bean will have its own
copy of the data, completely separated from the copy of the
data at the client. With local client view, you can do pass-by-
reference, which means your bean, as well as the client, will
work directly with one copy of the data. Any changes made by
the bean will be seen by the client and vice versa. Pass-by-
reference eliminates time/system expenses for copying data
variables, which provides a performance advantage.
If you create an entity bean, you need to remember that it is
usually used with a local client view. If your entity bean needs
to provide access to a client outside of the existing JVM (i.e., a
remote client), you typically use a session bean with a remote
client view. This is the so-called Session Facade pattern, the
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goal of which is that the session bean provides the remote
client access to the entity bean.
If you want to use container-managed relationship (CMR) in
your enterprise bean, you must expose local interfaces, and
thus use local client view. This is mentioned in the EJB
specification.
Enterprise beans that are tightly coupled logically are good
candidates for using local client view. In other words, if one
enterprise bean is always associated with another, it is
perfectly appropriate to co-locate them (i.e., deploy them both
in one JVM) and organize them through a local interface.
+ What is EJB Query Language?
EJB QL is somewat similar to SQL. But ejb ql is used to retrieve
data from bean objects where as sql is used to retrieve data
from tables.
+ What is ACID?
ACID is releated to transactions. It is an acronyam of Atomic,
Consistent, Isolation and Durable. Transaction must following
the above four properties to be a better one
Atomic: It means a transaction must execute all or nothing at
all.
Consistent: Consistency is a transactional characteristic that
must be enforced by both the transactional system and the
application developer
Isolation: Transaation must be allowed to run itselft without
the interference of the other process or transactions.
Durable: Durablity means that all the data changes that made
by the transaction must be written in some type of physical
storage before the transaction is successfully completed. This
ensures that transacitons are not lost even if the system
crashes.
+ What are the various isolation levels in a transaction
and differences between them?
There are three isolation levels in Transaction. They are
1. Dirrty Reads: If transaction A updates a record in database
followed by the transaction B reading the record then the
transaction A performs a rollback on its update operation,
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the result that transaction B had read is invalid as it has
been rolled back by transaction A.
2. NonRepeatable Reads: If transaction A reads a record,
followed by transaction B updating the same record, then
transaction A reads the same record a second time,
transaction A has read two different values for the same
record.
3. Phantom Reads: If transaction A performs a query on the
database with a particular search criteria (WHERE clause),
followed by transaction B creating new records that satisfy
the search criteria, followed by transaction A repeating its
query, transaction A sees new, phantom records in the
results of the second query.
+ What are the various transaction attributes and
differences between them?
There are six transaction attributes that are supported in EJB.
1. quired - T1---T1
0---T1
2. RequiresNew - T1---T2
0---T1
3. Mandatory - T1---T1
0---Error
4. Supports - T1---T1
0---0
5. NotSupported - T1---0
0---0
6. Never - T1---Error
0---0
+ What is the difference between activation and
passivation?
Activation and Passivation is appilicable for only Stateful
session bean and Entity bean.
When Bean instance is not used for a while by client then EJB
Container removes it from memory and puts it in secondary
storage (often disk) so that the memory can be reused. This is
called Passivation.
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When Client calls the bean instance again then Container takes
the passivated bean from secondary storage and puts it in
memory to serve the client request. This is called Activation.
+ What is Instance pooling?
pooling of instances n stateless session beans and Entity Beans
server maintains a pool of instances.whenever server got a
request from client, it takes one instance from the pool and
serves the client request.
+ What is the difference between HTTPSession and
Stateful Session Bean?
From a logical point of view, a Servlet/JSP session is similar to
an EJB session. Using a session, in fact, a client can connect to
a server and maintain his state.
But, is important to understand, that the session is maintained
in different ways and, in theory, for different scopes.
A session in a Servlet, is maintained by the Servlet Container
through the HttpSession object, that is acquired through the
request object. You cannot really instantiate a new
HttpSession object, and it does not contains any business
logic, but is more of a place where to store objects.
A session in EJB is maintained using the SessionBeans. You
design beans that can contain business logic, and that can be
used by the clients. You have two different session beans:
Stateful and Stateless. The first one is somehow connected
with a single client. It maintains the state for that client, can
be used only by that client and when the client "dies" then the
session bean is "lost".
A Stateless Session Bean does not maintain any state and
there is no guarantee that the same client will use the same
stateless bean, even for two calls one after the other. The
lifecycle of a Stateless Session EJB is slightly different from the
one of a Stateful Session EJB. Is EJB Containers responsability
to take care of knowing exactly how to track each session and
redirect the request from a client to the correct instance of a
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Session Bean. The way this is done is vendor dependant, and
is part of the contract.
+ What is the difference between find and select methods
in EJB?
select method is not there in EJBs
A select method is similar to a finder method for Entity Beans,
they both use EJB-QL to define the semantics of the method.
They differ in that an ejbSelect method(s) are not exposed to
the client and the ejbSelect method(s) can return values that
are defined as cmp-types or cmr-types.
+ What are the optional clauses in EJB QL?
Three optional clauses are available in EJB Ql.
1. SELECT
2. FROM
3. WHERE
The EJB QL must always contain SELECT and FROM clauses.
The WHERE clause is optional.
The FROM clause provides declarations for the identification
variables based on abstract schema name, for navigating
through the schema. The SELECT clause uses these
identification variables to define the return type of the query,
and the WHERE clause defines the conditional query.
+ What is handle in EJB?
To get hold the session state of the Stateful Session bean.
A handle is an abstraction of a network reference to an EJB
object. A handle is intended to be used as a "robust" persistent
reference to an EJB object.
+ What is the difference between JNDI context, Initial
context, session context and ejb context?
JNDI Context Provides a mechanism to lookup resources on
the network
Initial Context constructor provides the initial context.
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Session Context has all the information a session bean
would require from the container
Entity Context has all the information that an Entity bean
would need from a container
Ejb Context contains the information that is common to both
the session and entity bean.
+ What is the difference between sessioncontext and
entitycontext?
Session Context Contains information that a Session Bean
would require from the container
Entity Context contains the information that an Entity Bean
would require from a container
+ What is the difference between EAR, JAR and WAR file
In J2EE application modules are packaged as EAR, JAR and
WAR based on their functionality
JAR: Java Archive File
EJB modules which contains enterprise java beans class files
and EJB deployment descriptor are packed as JAR files with
.jar extenstion
WAR: Web Archive File
Web modules which contains Servlet class files,JSP
FIles,supporting files, GIF and HTML files are packaged as JAR
file with .war( web achive) extension
EAR: Enterprise File
All above files(.jar and .war) are packaged as JAR file with .ear
( enterprise archive) extension and deployed into Application
Server.
+ What is deployment descriptor?
Deployment Descriptor is a XML document with .xml extenion.
It basically descripes the deployment settings of an application
or module or the component. At runtime J2EE server reads the
deployment descriptor and understands it and then acts upon
the component or module based the information mentioned in
descriptor.
For example EJB module has a deployment descriptor ejb-
jar.xml where we mention whether it is session or entity or
mesage driven bean and where is the home, remore and Bean
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classes are located and what type of transaction etc. In a
simple word, without deployment descritor the Container
( EJB/Servlet/JSP container) will not know what to do with that
module.
Deployment Descriptor is a file located in the WEB-INF
directory that controls the behaviour of Servlets and JSP.
The file is called Web.xml and contains
xmlHeader
Web.xml DOCTYPE Sevlet name
Web-appelements ------ Servlet Class
Init-parm
Servlet Configuration:
<web-app>
<Servlet>
<Servlet-name>Admin</Servlet-name>
<Servlet-Class>com.ds.AdminServlet</Servlet-class>
</Servlet>
<init-param>
<param-value></param-value>
<param-name>admin.com</param-name>
</init-param>
<Servlet-mapping>
<Servlet-name>Admin</Servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/Admin</url-pattern>
</Servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
EJB Deployment descriptor:
Ejb-jar.xml
META-INF
Weblogic-ejb-jar.xml
<ejb-jar>
<enterprise-bean>
</Session>
<ejb-name>Statefulfinacialcalcu</ejb-name>
<home>fincal.stateful.fincalc</home>
<remote>fincal.stateful.fincalc</remote>
<ejb-Class>fincal.stateful.fincalcEJB<ejb-Class>
<session-type>Stateful</session-type>
<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
</Session>
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</enterprise-bean>
<assembly-descriptor>
<container-transaction>
<method>
<ejb-name>Statefulfinacialcalcu</ejb-name>
<method-name> * </method-name>
</method>
<transaction-attribute>supports</transaction-
attribute>
</container-transaction>
<assembly-descriptor>
<ejb-jar>
weblogic-ejb-jar.xml:
<weblogic-ejb-jar>
<weblogic-enterprise-bean>
<ejb-name>Statefulfinacialcalcu</ejb-name>
<jndi-name>statefulfinacalc</jndi-name>
</weblogic-enterprise-bean>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>
+ What is CMR?
CMR - Container Managed Relationships allows the developer
to declare various types of relationships between the entity
beans.
+ What is the difference between CMP 1.1 and CMP 2.0?
CMR and sub classing of the CMP bean by the container.
+ What is the difference between optimistic locking and
pessimistic locking?
Optimistic locking assumes that no one would read or
change the data while changes are being by a bean.
Pessimistic locking would rather lock down the data so that
no one can access it.
+ What is lazy loading?
Lazy loading is a characteristic of an application when the
actual loading and instantiation of a class is delayed until the
point just before the instance is actually used. The goal is to
only dedicate memory resources when necessary by only
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loading and instantiating an object at the point when it is
absolutely needed.
Tools such as Eclipse have popularized the lazy-loading
approach as they use the facility to control the load and
initialization of heavyweight plug-ins. This gives the double
bonus of speeding up the initial load time for the application,
as not all plug-ins are loaded straightaway; ensuring efficiency
as only the plug-ins that are used are loaded at all.
+ Is Decorator an EJB design pattern?
No, If i throw a custom ApplicationException from a business
method in Entity bean which is participating in a transaction,
would the transaction be rolled back by container. Does
container rolls back transaction only in case of
SystemExceptions.
Yes, the rollback will occur For declarative transactions,
container will rollback on systemException. Container has no
way to know whether a speicific application exception is
serious enough to roll back the participated transaction. Use
setRollbackOnly() to doom the transaction.
+ What are simple rules that a Primary key class has to
follow?
Implement the equals and hashcode methods.
+ What is abstract schema?
CMP uses abstract schema to map to the physical database.
+ What is re-entrant. Is session beans reentrant. Is entity
beans reentrant?
Re-entrant means where Bean A calls methods of Bean B and
then Bean B turns around and calls methods of Bean A. The
above all within a single thread of control. This is also called as
loopback.
Entity beans are the only one bean that is reentrant. Neither
Session bean nor Message Driven Bean are reentrant. When
Entity bean, we have to declare in the deployment descriptor
whether it is reentrant ( true or false).
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Why an onMessage call in Message-driven bean is always a
seperate transaction.
The MDB is stateless and inherently each message is unique
with respect to the MDB.
Each message needs to be processed independently. Hence
the need for separate transactions
+ Does Stateful Session bean support instance pooling?
All Beans support Instance Pooling
statefull session bean does not maintain instance pooling,
stateless session beans and entity beans can maintain
instance pooling
+ Why does EJB needs two interfaces(Home and Remote
Interface)?
Home is to provide Lookup from JNDI while Remote is to
provide Object Instantiated
+ Can I invoke Runtime.gc() in an EJB?
No
+ Can a Session Bean be defined without ejbCreate()
method?
No
+ Why are ejbActivate() and ejb Passivate() included for
stateless session bean even though they are never
required as it is nonconversational bean?
To have a consistent interface, so that there is no different
interface that you need to implement for Stateful Session Bean
and Stateless Session Bean. Both Stateless and Stateful
Session Bean implement javax.ejb.SessionBean and this would
not be possible if stateless session bean is to remove
ejbActivate and ejbPassivate from the interface. You could
argue that the two (stateful and stateless) are so different that
they should have their own interface but Sun did not think so.
They made both session beans implement the same interface
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and provided deployment descriptor to denote which one is it
that you are deploying.
With EJB 1.1 specs, why is unsetSessionContext() not provided
in Session Beans, like unsetEntityContext() in Entity Beans.
This was the answer Provided by some one... According to
Mohan this one is not correct. Please see Mohan's reply below
and more in the comments section.
ejbRemove() is called for session beans every time the
container destroyes the bean. So you can use this method to
do the stuff you typically would do in unsetEntityContext(). For
entity beans ejbRemove() is only called if the user explicitly
deletes the bean. I think that is the reason why the engineers
at SUN invented the unsetEntityContext() for this kind of bean.
+ What is the difference between ejbStore() and
ejbLoad()?
When the EJB container needs to synchronize the instance
variables of an entity bean with the corresponding values
stored in a database, it invokes the ejbLoad and ejbStore
methods. The ejbLoad method refreshes the instance variables
from the database, and the ejbStore method writes the
variables to the database. The client cannot call ejbLoad and
ejbStore.
+ What is the difference between ejbCreate() and
ejbPostCreate()?
Session and Message Driven Bean will have only ejbCreate()
method and no ejbPostCreate() method. Entity bean will have
both ejbCreate() and ejbPostCreate() methods.
The ejbPostCreate method returns void, and it has the same
input parameters as the ejbCreate method. If we want to set a
relationship field to initialize the bean instance, we should do
so in the ejbPostCreate method. we cannot set a relationship
field in the ejbCreate method.
The ejbPostCreate() allows the bean to do any post-create
processing before it begins serving client requests. For every
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ejbCreate() there must be a matching (matching arguments)
ejbPostCreate() method.
+ Is stateless Sessiob bean create() method contains any
parameters?
No. This method must not contain any input parameters and
cannot be overloaded as well.
+ How can i retrieve from inside my Bean(Stateless
session and Entity CMP) the user name which i am
serving (the user name of user just logged in my web
application)?
Inside an EJB you may retrieve the "Caller" name, that is the
login id by invoking:
sessionContext.getCallerIdentity().getName() where
sessionContext is the instance of "SessionContext"
(setSessionContext) passed to the Session Bean, or the
instance of "EntityContext" (setEntityContext) passed to the
Entity Bean.
+ What is EJB architecture(components)
EJB Architecture consists of:
a) EJB Server
b) EJB containers that run on these servers,
c) Home Objects, Remote EJB Objects and Enterprise
Beans that run within these containers,
d) EJB Clients and
e) Auxillary systems like JNDI (Java Naming and Directory
Interface), JTS(Java Transaction Service) and security
services.
If my session bean with single method insert record into 2
entity beans, how can I know that the process is done in same
transaction (the attributes for these beans are Required)
If your method in the session bean is already running under a
transaction the calls to any other bean which have been
deployed with trans-attribute 'Required' will be executed within
the same transaction context.
So if your session bean is using container-managed
transactions and your method is deployed with 'Required',
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'RequiresNew' or 'Mandatory', you can safely assume that the
calls to your entity beans are handled under same transaction.
If you're not running in a transaction, a separate transaction
will be set up for each call to your entity beans.
If your session bean is using bean-managed transactions, you
can ensure that the calls are handled in the same transaction
by:
javax.transaction.UserTransaction tran= null;
try {
tran=ctx.getUserTransaction();
tran.begin();
myBeanHome1.create(....);
myBeanHome2.create(...);
tran.commit();
} catch(...) {
}
You may want to check if you're already running in a
transaction by calling tran.getStatus().
+ Is there a way to get the original exception object from
inside a nested or wrapped Exception (for example an
EJBException or RemoteException)?
Absolutely yes, but the way to do that depends on the
Exception, since there are no standards for that.
Some examples: When you have an javax.ejb.EJBException,
you can use the getCausedByException() that returns a
java.lang.Exception. A java.rmi.RemoteException there is a
public field called detail of type java.lang.Throwable With a
java.sql.SQLException you need to use the method
getNextException() to get the chained java.sql.SQLException.
When you have an
java.lang.reflect.InvocationtargetException, you can get the
thrown target java.lang.Throwable using the
getTargetException() method.
+ Can undefined primary keys are possible with Entity
beans?If so, what type is defined?
Yes,undefined primary keys are possible with Entity Beans.The
type is defined as java.lang.Object.
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+ When two entity beans are said to be identical?Which
method is used to compare identical or not?
Two Entity Beans are said to be Identical,if they have the
same home inteface and their primary keys are the same.To
test for this ,you must use the component inteface's
isIdentical() method.
+ Why CMP beans are abstract classes?
We have to provide abstract data to object mapping that maps
the fields in our bean to a batabase, and abstract methods
methods that corelate these fields.
+ Is instance pooling necessary for entity beans?
One of the fundamental concepts of Entity Beans is that they
are the pooled objects.Instance pooling is the service of the
container that allows the container to reuse bean instances,as
opposed to creating new ones every time a request for a bean
is made.This is a perfomance optimizatio done by the
container.
+ What is the difference b/w sendRedirect() and <jsp:
forward>?
sendredirect will happen on clint side & request , rsponse will
be newly created, for forward action it is server side action &
request, response is passed & not modified or destroyed.
+ How the abstract classes in CMP are converted into
concrete classes?
EJB2.0 allows developer to create only abstract classes and at
the time of deployement the container creates concrete classes
of the abstract. It is easy for container to read abstract classes
and appropriately generate concrete classes.
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Questions
1. A developer successfully creating and tests a
stateful bean following deployment, intermittent
"NullpointerException" begin to occur, particularly when
the server is hardly loaded. What most likely to related
problem.?
a) setSessionContext
b) ejbCreate
c) ejbPassivate
d) beforeCompletion
e) ejbLoad
2. 2 example implementations os Proxy are RMI &
Ejb?
3. If an RMI parameter implements
java.rmi.Remote, how is it passed "on-the-wire?"
Choice 1: It can never be passed.
Choice 2: It is passed by value.
Choice 3: It cannot be passed because it implements
java.rmi.Remote.
Choice 4: It cannot be passed unless it ALSO implements
java.io.Serializable.
Choice 5: It is passed by reference.
Ans: 2
4. public synchronized void txTest(int i) {
System.out.println("Integer is: " + i);
}
What is the outcome of attempting to compile and
execute the method above, assuming it is implemented
in a stateful session bean?
Choice 1: Run-time error when bean is created.
Choice 2: The method will run, violating the EJB specification.
Choice 3: Compile-time error for bean implementation class.
Choice 4: Compile-time error for remote interface.
Choice 5: Run-time error when the method is executed.
Ans: 2

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5. What is the CORBA naming service equivalent of
JNDI?
Choice 1: Interface Definition Language.
Choice 2: COS Naming.
Choice 3: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Choice 4: Interoperable Inter-Orb Protocol.
Choice 5: Computer Naming Service
Ans: 2
6. InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
TestHome th = (TestHome)
ic.lookup("testBean/TestBean");
TestRemote beanA = th.create();
TestRemote beanB = th.create();
TestRemote beanC = th.create();
beanC.remove();
TestRemote beanD = th.create();
TestRemote beanE = th.create();
beanC = th.create();
Given the above code, container passivates which bean
instance first if the container limited the bean pool size
to four beans and used a "least-recently-used"
algorithm to passivate?
Choice 1 : Bean A
Choice 2 : Bean B
Choice 3 : Bean C
Choice 4 : Bean D
Choice 5 : Bean E
7. Which one of the following phenomena is NOT
addressed by read-consistency?
a) Phantom read
b) Cached read
c) Dirty read
d) Non-repeatable read
e) Fuzzy read
Ans: b,e

8. Which one of the following methods is generally
called in both ejbLoad() and ejbStore()?
a) getEJBObject()
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b) getHandle()
c) remove()
d) getEJBHome()
e) getPrimaryKey()
Ans: e
9. public void ejbCreate(int i) {
System.out.println("ejbCreate(i)");
}
Given a currently working stateless session bean, what
will be the outcome upon deploying and executing the
bean if you added the above unique method to the
implementation class of a stateless session bean (and
made no other changes)?
a) Compile time error during stub/skeleton
generation.
b) Compile time error for home interface.
c) Code will compile without errors.
d) Compile time error for remote interface.
e) Compile time error for bean implementation.
Ans: a
10. Given the above code in your stateless session
bean business method implementation, and the
transaction is container-managed with a Transaction
Attribute of TX_SUPPORTS, which one of the following
is the first error generated?
a) Error when compiling home interface
b) Error while generating stubs and skeletons
c) NullPointerException during deployment
d) Runtime error
e) Compile-time error for the bean implementation
Ans: b
11. Which one of the following is the result of
attempting to deploy a stateless session bean and
execute one of the method M when the bean
implementation contains the method M NOT defined in
the remote interface?
a) Compile time error for remote interface.
b) Compile time error for bean implementation.
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c) Compile time error during stub/skeleton
generation.
d) Code will compile without errors.
e) Compile time error for home interface.
Ans: d
12. Which one of the following characteristics is NOT
true of RMI and Enterprise Java Beans?
a) They must execute within the confines of a Java
virtual machine (JVM).
b) They serialize objects for distribution.
c) They require .class files to generate stubs and
skeletons.
d) They do not require IDL.
e) They specify the use of the IIOP wire protocol for
distribution.
Ans: a
13. Which one of the following is the result of
attempting to deploy a stateless session bean and
execute one of the method M when the bean
implementation contains the method M NOT defined in
the remote interface?
a) Compile time error for remote interface.
b) Compile time error for bean implementation.
c) Compile time error during stub/skeleton
generation.
d) Code will compile without errors.
e) Compile time error for home interface.
14. If a unique constraint for primary keys is not
enabled in a database, multiple rows of data with the
same primary key could exist in a table. Entity beans
that represent the data from the table described above
are likely to throw which exception?
a) NoSuchEntityException
b) FinderException
c) ObjectNotFoundException
d) RemoveException
e) NullPointerException
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15. A developer needs to deploy an Enterprise Java
Bean, specifically an entity bean, but is unsure if the
bean container is able to create and provide a
transaction context. Which attribute below will allow
successful deployment of the bean?
a) BeanManaged
b) RequiresNew
c) Mandatory
d) Required
e) Supports
16. What is the outcome of attempting to compile
and execute the method above, assuming it is
implemented in a stateful session bean?
a) Compile-time error for remote interface
b) Run-time error when bean is created
c) Compile-time error for bean implementation class
d) The method will run, violating the EJB
specification.
e) Run-time error when the method is executed
17. Which one of the following is the result of
attempting to deploy a stateless session bean and
execute one of the method M when the bean
implementation contains the method M NOT defined in
the remote interface?
a) Compile time error for remote interface.
b) Compile time error for bean implementation.
c) Compile time error during stub/skeleton
generation.
d) Code will compile without errors.
e) Compile time error for home interface.
18. If a unique constraint for primary keys is not
enabled in a database, multiple rows of data with the
same primary key could exist in a table. Entity beans
that represent the data from the table described above
are likely to throw which exception?
a) NoSuchEntityException
b) FinderException
c) ObjectNotFoundException
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d) RemoveException
e) NullPointerException
There are two Enterprise Java Beans, A and B. A method in "A"
named "Am" begins execution, reads a value v from the
database and sets a variable "X" to value v, which is one
hundred. "Am" adds fifty to the variable X and updates the
database with the new value of X. "Am" calls "Bm", which is a
method in B. "Bm" begins executing. "Bm" reads an additional
value from the database. Based on the value, "Bm" determines
that a business rule has been violated and aborts the
transaction. Control is returned to "Am".Requirement: If "Bm"
aborts the transaction, it is imperative that the original value be
read from the database and stored in variable X.
19. Given the scenario above, which Transaction
Attributes will most likely meet the requirements
stated?
a) A-RequiresNew, B-Mandatory
b) A-Mandatory, B-RequiresNew
c) A-RequiresNew, B-Supports
d) A-NotSupported, B-RequiresNew
e) A-RequiresNew, B-RequiresNew
20. If an RMI parameter implements
java.rmi.Remote, how is it passed "on-the-wire?"
Choice 1: It can never be passed.
Choice 2: It is passed by value.
Choice 3: It cannot be passed because it implements
java.rmi.Remote.
Choice 4: (Correct) It cannot be passed unless it ALSO
implements java.io.Serializable.
Choice 5: It is passed by reference.
21. public synchronized void txTest(int i) {
System.out.println("Integer is: " + i);
}
What is the outcome of attempting to compile and
execute the method above, assuming it is implemented
in a stateful session bean?
Choice 1: Run-time error when bean is created.
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Choice 2: The method will run, violating the EJB specification.
Choice 3: (Correct) Compile-time error for bean
implementation class.
Choice 4: Compile-time error for remote interface.
Choice 5: Run-time error when the method is executed.
22. What is the CORBA naming service equivalent of
JNDI?
Choice 1: Interface Definition Language
Choice 2: (Correct) COS Naming
Choice 3: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Choice 4: Interoperable Inter-Orb Protocol
Choice 5: Computer Naming Service
23. InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
TestHome th = (TestHome)
ic.lookup("testBean/TestBean");
TestRemote beanA = th.create();
TestRemote beanB = th.create();
TestRemote beanC = th.create();
beanC.remove();
TestRemote beanD = th.create();
TestRemote beanE = th.create();
beanC = th.create();
Given the above code, container passivates which bean
instance first if the container limited the bean pool size
to four beans and used a "least-recently-used"
algorithm to passivate?
Choice 1: Bean A
Choice 2: Bean B
Choice 3: Bean C
Choice 4: Bean D
Choice 5: Bean E
Ans: 4 (Correct, Since only Statefull session bean and Entity
Bean can be passivated, and Entitybean can not call as
th.create() normally, I take it as statefull session bean)
24. Which one of the following phenomena is NOT
addressedby read-consistency?
a) Phantom read (Correct)
b) Cached read
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c) Dirty read
d) Non-repeatable read
e) Fuzzy read
25. Which one of the following methods is generally
called in both ejbLoad() and ejbStore()?
a) getEJBObject()
b) getHandle()
c) remove()
d) getEJBHome()
e) getPrimaryKey() (Correct)
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