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This tutorial presents, how to use Ajax

Content of index.html

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>Ajax implementation in Servlet without Using jQuery</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/ajax.js"></script> </head> <body> <h3>Ajax implementation in Servlet without jQuery</h3> <br /> <div id="ajaxResponse" style="color: red; font-weight: bold"></div> <br /> Please Enter your Name : <input type="text" id="userName" onblur="doAjaxCall();" /> <br /> Please Enter your password : <input type="password" id="userPass" /> <br /> <input type="submit" value="Enter"> <br /> </body> </html>

Content of ajax.js in js directory


//Get XMLHTTP Object function getXMLHTTPObject() { var xmlhttpObject = null; try { // For Old Microsoft Browsers xmlhttpObject = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) { try { // For Microsoft IE 6.0+ xmlhttpObject = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e1) { // No Browser accepts the XMLHTTP Object then false xmlhttpObject = false; } } if (!xmlhttpObject && typeof XMLHttpRequest != 'undefined') { // For Mozilla, Opera Browsers xmlhttpObject = new XMLHttpRequest(); } // Mandatory Statement returning the ajax object created return xmlhttpObject; } // Change the value of the outputText field function setAjaxOutput() { document.getElementById('ajaxResponse').innerHTML = xmlhttpObject.responseText; } function handleServerResponse() { if (xmlhttpObject.readyState == 4) { if (xmlhttpObject.status == 200) { setAjaxOutput(); } else { alert("Error during AJAX call. Please try again"); } } } // Implement business logic function doAjaxCall() { xmlhttpObject = getXMLHTTPObject(); if (xmlhttpObject != null) { var URL = "AjaxAction?userName=" + document.getElementById('userName').value; xmlhttpObject.open("POST", URL, true); xmlhttpObject.send(null); xmlhttpObject.onreadystatechange = handleServerResponse; } }

Content of AjaxServlet.java


package com.t4b.ajax.test; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; public class AjaxServlet extends HttpServlet { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { String userName = request.getParameter("userName"); if (userName.equals("")) { userName = "User name cannot be empty"; } else { userName = "Hello " + userName; } response.setContentType("text/plain"); response.getWriter().write(userName); } }

Content of web.xml


<web-app> <display-name>JqueryAjaxServlet</display-name> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <servlet> <servlet-name>AjaxAction</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.t4b.ajax.test.AjaxServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>AjaxAction</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/AjaxAction/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>


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