[ Team LiB ] 5.7 The Article Page The article page consists of two pieces: the contents of the article and the comment region, which allows users to comment on stories and read others’ comments. The first portion is even simpler than the section page, as it need only display the contents of a few properties from the ArticleBean, as shown in Listing 5.8. Listing 5.8 The article page
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[ Team LiB ] 5.6 The Section Page Listing 5.3 showed how the section page will be called from the list of available sections and how this page will be passed a sectionId as if a form had sent it. This means that it will be possible to use a bean and a jsp:setProperty to tell that bean which section was selected, just as was done in the section list to place an asterisk in front of the current section. If the section bean is designed to load up all the stories in a section when the sectionId property is set, all that is necessary to build the section page is to iterate the available articles with a c:forEach tag. That is exactly what Listing 5.7 does. Listing 5.7 The section page
If this looks very similar to the section list from Listing 5.3, it should! They both do essentially the same thing; the only significant difference is that the items in this example are in a definition list instead of an unordered list. In particular, the c:url tag is used in both. Figure 5.3 shows how the section page looks in a browser. Figure 5.3. The JNT section page. [View full size image] Page 100
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[ Team LiB ] 5.5 The Quiz Result Page Chapter 3 introduced the daily quiz that Java News Today will use to liven up its site. The quiz consists of a serialized bean that holds the questions and correct answer, along with a form from which the user can guess, as shown in Listing 3.13. At that point, there was no way to check whether the user was correct, but that’s easily remedied now that we have the standard tag library at our disposal. The quiz result page, shown in Listing 5.6, it is very straightforward. Listing 5.6 The quiz result page <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
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[ Team LiB ] 5.4 The Login Page Now that a form has been provided so users can log themselves in on the system, there needs to be a page that will perform the necessary actions. The page that does this is shown in Listing 5.5. Listing 5.5 The login handler <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %> Click here to proceed to your custom edition.
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[ Team LiB ] 5.3 The Left-Hand Navigation The left side of the page has thus far contained only the daily quiz, which was developed in Listing 3.13, and a link to the customization page. This will now be enhanced by the addition of a login box from which the user can log in. This will also be a simple form, but in the interest of encapsulation, it will be placed in its own file and included with a jsp:include. Listing 5.2 shows the new login form. Listing 5.2 The login form
This file contains no beans, scripts, or special tags, which should come as no surprise. There have already been many examples of forms that provide values to beans, and in all these cases, the forms themselves need not know anything about the beans, as all the action happens on the receiving page, where the form values are loaded into a bean with the jsp:setProperty tag. The only requirement for this to work is that the bean’s properties must be called username and password. Because these names were chosen in the data-modeling phase, both the author of this form and the author of the UserInfoBean will know to use those names. The implementation of the UserInfoBean used in this chapter knows about one user whose username and password are both “test”, so those are the values to enter into the login form when exploring the examples on the CD-ROM. The other necessary element of the left-hand navigation is the list of sections available in the current edition. The designer for the site would like an asterisk next to the current section so that the user will always know where in the site he or she currently is. The section list will also be placed in a separate file for easy manipulation; this file is shown in Listing 5.3. Listing 5.3 The list of sections <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
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