Chapter 15. Integrating Servlets and JSP: The Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture

Chapter 15. Integrating Servlets and JSP: The Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture

Topics in This Chapter

• Understanding the benefits of MVC

• Using RequestDispatcher to implement MVC

• Forwarding requests from servlets to JSP pages

• Handling relative URLs

• Choosing among different display options

• Comparing data-sharing strategies

• Forwarding requests from JSP pages

• Including pages instead of forwarding to them

Servlets are good at data processing : reading and checking data, communicating with databases, invoking business logic, and so on. JSP pages are good at presentation : building HTML to represent the results of requests. This chapter describes how to combine servlets and JSP pages to best make use of the strengths of each technology.