Web-based Java Application

Java Bean in JSP

 Objectives
 Upon completion of this chapter, students
should have achieved
 Understanding component model, COM & Java
Bean concepts
 Understand and apply the characteristics and Java
Bean object
 Skills to use Java Bean in a JSP and EL
 Good practices of the MVC application design
model.

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 Content
 Component Object Model
 Java Bean features
 Introspection
 Persistance
 Java Bean class
 Using Java Bean in JSP
 Java bean with EL
 Apply Java Bean in MVC application

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 Component Object Model
 Component Object Model (COM) is an interface
standard for software components introduced by
Microsoft - 1983
 The idea of COM is create objects that can be used in
environments different from the one in which they were created.
 Component: independent software modules that can be
integrated into an application
 Blocks, modules of a house
 General COM technology
 COM - Microsoft
 Java bean from Sun
 COM+, DCOM, EJB
 Java Bean is a design pattern class follow COM concept

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 Java Bean features
 Follow design patern
 Introspection
 The deployment environment has the ability to
automatically recognize the properties, methods, and
events of the Java Bean object

Naming design pattern

Bean Info class
 Persistance
 The ability to store and recover data changes of Java
Bean objects

Serializable

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 Java Bean class
 Must have default, no-argument constructor.
 implement the Serializable interface.
 May have a number of properties which can
be read or written.
 May have a number of "getter" and "setter"
methods for the properties.

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 Java Bean
 Bean properties
 Introspec by set/get method

public int getAccNo()

public void setAccNo(int id)
-> property named accNo with datatype int
 Types of bean properties

simple properties

constraint properties

bound properties

index properties

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 Using Java Bean in JSP
 Action useBean: runtime invocation JSP tag
Syntax
<jsp:useBean id=“varName” class=“BeanClassName”
scope=“effectiveScope” />
Note: if id of bean created ready use type not use class for the
second call this bean
<jsp:useBean id=“acc” class=“Account” scope=“session”/>
 Scope: effective scope of bean– scope variable

Page

Request

Session

Application
 Bean is automatically initialized & referenced in the declared scope:
 the same id in same scope is not allowed!!!

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 Java Bean in JSP
 Set the property of bean object
 3 syntax:
 <jsp:setProperty name=“var” property=“attbName” value=“a_value” />
Set a property (attbName) of bean (var) with a specfic value (a_value).

 <jsp:setProperty name=“var” property=“attbName” param=“inputName” />

Set a property (attbName) of bean (var) with value from input control on form
which has name property is inputName

 <jsp:setProperty name=“var” property=“*” />

Set all bean's properties according to the input form's properties when the
name of the bean's property matches the name attribute on the input form
Map 1-1 from the input form to the bean's properties
Should be most widely used for convenience..

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 Java Bean in JSP
 Get property of bean object
 <jsp:getProperty name=“var” property=“attr” />
 return current value of bean property attr
 the same like getAttr()
 Get bean property with EL syntax
 ${beanName.propertyName}
 beanName is automatically lookup from narrow to
wide scope, similar to implicit object.

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 Java bean in MVC architechture
 MVC is the most popular pattern for web
applications
 MVC Model – View – Controller
 Model: responsible for processing business data of
an application/system:

Java bean - DAO : business tier – data tier
 View: responsible for data presentation and direct
user interaction

JSP – JSTL – EL – Custom Tags
 Controller: responsible for controlling and
connecting components:

Servlet – Filter – Listener
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 Summary
 Component model and MVC
 Java Bean features
 Using Java bean in JSP : action tags
 Java beans are
 Widely used in GUI programming environment
 Encapsulated object for data exchange in a
distributed environment

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 Practical homework
 Develop bean class Account, Customer,
TransLog for Banking application
 Development of a Counter bean as a hit
counter for all pages of your application.
Where should counter bean be declared?
 Using Java bean for user registration of web
application
 Using Java bean for listing data of a web
application

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 Constructivity question
 State the benefits of using java bean in java
web application
 How to access a bean object declared on the
JSP page when coding the servlet?
 How is access to different beans with the
same name done?
 Try to find the reason why a java bean object
cannot be accessed on the JSP page even
though there is no syntax error.

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