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LEARN HOW TO CREATE WEB PAGES IN OO STYLE

If you're creating a Web page with a servlet but are having a difficult
time embedding the HTML inside Java, use the Apache Jakarta Element
Construction Set (ECS).

The ECS is a Java application program interface (API) that provides a
way to create markup languages. Developers can delegate which objects 
are
responsible for which parts of a marked-up page, thus displaying all 
the
benefits of object-oriented development on a normally non-OO area. It
provides support for WML, XML, VXML, and RTF, and is a great tool for
simplifying code.

Here's an example of a basic servlet code:

out.write("<html><head><title>");
out.write(title);
out.write("</title></head>");
....

However, with the ECS, you can use objects without having to close your
tags, such as:

Html html = new Html( ).addElement(
                new Head( ).addElement(
                    new Title(title)
                )
            );

When you've finished building the Web page, simply output it to the
servlet's output stream:

html.output(out);

ECS can also be useful when outputting XML. Rather than having to deal
with all the tags and having to escape certain characters, ECS takes 
care
of it all for you. For example:

XML xml = new XML("person")
            .addXMLAttribute("name", "bayard")
            .addXMLAttribute("location", "alaska")
            .addElement(
              new XML("poster")
                .addXMLAttribute("name", "tux")
             )
            .addElement(
              new XML("poster")
                .addXMLAttribute("name", "gorillaz")
             );

This code creates the following XML:

<person name="bayard" location="alaska">
    <poster name="tux"/>
    <poster name="gorillaz"/>
</person>

Visit the Apache Jakarta site to get the latest version of ECS.
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ecs/release/

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