A Setup Test
The Servlet
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
public class test2 extends HttpServlet{
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException{
String the_name = request.getParameter("whoisit");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<h1>Hi "+the_name+"</h1>");
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
}
}
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version="3.0">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>test2</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>test2</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>test2</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/test2</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
The calling HTML
<html>
<body>
<form name="loginForm" method="get" action="http://localhost:8080/courseexamples/test2">
Enter Your Name: <input type="text" name="whoisit"/> <br/>
<input type="submit" value="Tell Me" />
</form>
</body>
</html>