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Servlet Programming (O'Reilly, 1999)
Perl 5 Interactive Course (Waite, 1997)
Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (Prentice Hall, 2000)
The C++ Standard Library (Addison-Wesley, 1999)
JavaScript The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, 1999)
MySQL (New Riders, 1999)
Professional PHP Programming (Wrox, 1999)
Professional Java Server Programming (Wrox, 1999)

Accepting GET method input

To do anything interesting with servlets, you need to accept input from the browser. This can be done by using the getParameter() method of the HttpServletRequest class. The following bold code demonstrates how we can accept a "name" variable with the doGet method of our our MyServlet class:

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;


// MyServlet.java



public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet
{ 
 public void doGet ( HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res ) 
 throws ServletException, IOException { 
  String name = req.getParameter("name");
  res.setContentType( "text/html"); 
  PrintWriter out = res.getWriter(); 
  out.println( "<html><body>" );          
  out.println( "Hello there, " + name); 
  out.close(); 
 } 
}

Load this servlet using a query string appended to the URL such as the following to see how the servlet makes use of the GET method input.

http://www.yourdomain.com/servlet/MyServlet?name=Michael

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