Your First Servlet

• In NetBeans/Forte, open a project or create a new one.
• Choose the directory in which you want to put your source code.
• Choose New-Servlet, and you will see that a great deal of the effort is completed for you!
• Including the content-type, which tells the browser that the output will be HTML.  You can change this if you wish.
• Let's write a simple HelloWhirled servlet.
• The action will be taken in a method called processRequest(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse).
• Both doPut() and doGet() will call processRequest().
• So, all you need to do is un-comment the generated HTML, and put a statement in an out.println().
• out is an object of type java.io.PrintWriter that sends our output to the response to the web browser. Use it just as you would System.out.println().
• HelloWhirled.java
• The output:

 The Servlet Life Cycle

Created by:  Brandan Jones December 20, 2001