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Develop with Java and PHP technology on AIX Version 5.3, Part 2: Building the Java business application

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Martin Brown (mc@mcslp.com), Freelance Writer, Consultant
Doug Monroe (monroe@sqnt.com), System Administration Consultant, DMA Inc.

05 Jun 2007

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It is possible to develop applications that employ both Java™ and PHP technology. You can use Java for the core logic (or redeploy an existing Java-based application), while gaining the benefits of PHP as a Web-based interface platform. In this tutorial, the second part of a six-part series, create a simple Java business application and then deploy it as a servlet on the Apache Tomcat application server on a System p™ system with the IBM AIX® Version 5.3 operating system.

In this tutorial

  • Developing the business application
    • The survey application
    • Building Java applications on AIX
    • The SurveyQuestion class
    • The SurveyQuestionText class
    • The SurveyQuestionRadio class
    • Exposing other question types
    • Building a survey

  • Java servlets
    • Describing a servlet
    • The init() method
    • The doGet() method
    • Outputting an HTML Form fields
    • The doPost() method

  • Deploying Java apps as servlets
    • Compiling the servlet
    • Deploying our servlets
    • Testing the servlet


Objectives

To create a simple Java™ business application and deploy it as a servlet.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is for AIX 5.3 developers interested in getting up to speed in integrating both PHP and Java in their Web application development. Readers should have basic Java programming knowledge and basic Web development environment knowledge.


System requirements

You need the following software to follow along with this tutorial:

  • IBM pSeries® server (This code was tested using AIX Version 5.3.)
  • Apache Tomcat system
  • The Eclipse IDE
  • The Java 5 64-bit SDK (You will need to register to download this package, but registration is free.)
  • The Mozilla Web browser for AIX



Duration

2 hours


Formats

html, pdf


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