Servlet database access

This tutorial assumes that you already know how JDBC applications work. Before you begin to learn Servlet database access, please visit the Java MySQL connection to set up the relevant drivers and configurations.

Note:

You can download the provided jar package: mysql-connector-java-5.1.39-bin.jar

In a java project, you only need to introduce in the Eclipse mysql-connector-java-5.1.39-bin.jar can run the java project.

But in Eclipse web projects, when executing Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); I won’t look for the driver when I do. So in this example, we need to put mysql-connector-java-5.1.39-bin.jar copy it to the lib directory under tomcat.

Starting with the basic concepts, let’s create a simple table and create a few records in the table.

Create test data

Next, we create the RUNOOB database in MySQL and create the websites data table, which is structured as follows:

CREATE TABLE `websites` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` char(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' COMMENT 'Site Name',
  `url` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `alexa` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' COMMENT 'Alexa ranking',
  `country` char(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' COMMENT 'country',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=10 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Insert some data:

INSERT INTO `websites` VALUES ('1', 'Google', 'https://www.google.cm/',
'1', 'USA'), ('2', 'TaoBao', 'https://www.taobao.com/', '13', 'CN'),
('3', 'Rookie Tutorial', 'http://www.runoob.com', '5892', ''),
('4', 'MicroBlog', 'http://weibo.com/', '20', 'CN'), ('5', 'Facebook',
'https://www.facebook.com/', '3', 'USA');

The data table is shown as follows:

Access the database

The following example demonstrates how to use Servlet to access a RUNOOB database.

package com.runoob.test;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.sql.*;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

/**
 * Servlet implementation class DatabaseAccess
 */
@WebServlet("/DatabaseAccess")
public class DatabaseAccess extends HttpServlet {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    // JDBC Driver Name and Database URL
    static final String JDBC_DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
    static final String DB_URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/RUNOOB";

    // The username and password of the database need to be set according to your own settings
    static final String USER = "root";
    static final String PASS = "123456";
    /**
     * @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet()
     */
    public DatabaseAccess() {
        super();
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

    /**
     * @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
     */
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        Connection conn = null;
        Statement stmt = null;
        // Set response content type
        response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        String title = "Servlet Mysql Testing - Rookie Tutorial";
        String docType = "<!DOCTYPE html>\n";
        out.println(docType +
        "<html>\n" +
        "<head><title>" + title + "</title></head>\n" +
        "<body bgcolor=\"#f0f0f0\">\n" +
        "<h1 align=\"center\">" + title + "</h1>\n");
        try{
            // Register JDBC driver
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");

            // Open a connection
            conn = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL,USER,PASS);

            // Execute SQL query
            stmt = conn.createStatement();
            String sql;
            sql = "SELECT id, name, url FROM websites";
            ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(sql);

            // Expand Result Set Database
            while(rs.next()){
                // Retrieve through fields
                int id  = rs.getInt("id");
                String name = rs.getString("name");
                String url = rs.getString("url");

                // output data
                out.println("ID: " + id);
                out.println(", Site Name: " + name);
                out.println(", Site URL: " + url);
                out.println("<br />");
            }
            out.println("</body></html>");

            // Close after completion
            rs.close();
            stmt.close();
            conn.close();
        } catch(SQLException se) {
            // Handling JDBC errors
            se.printStackTrace();
        } catch(Exception e) {
            // Processing Class. forName error
            e.printStackTrace();
        }finally{
            // Finally, there is a block for closing resources
            try{
                if(stmt!=null)
                stmt.close();
            }catch(SQLException se2){
            }
            try{
                if(conn!=null)
                conn.close();
            }catch(SQLException se){
                se.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

    }

    /**
     * @see HttpServlet#doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
     */
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        doGet(request, response);
    }
}

Now let’s compile the Servlet above, and in the web.xml create the following entries in the file:

....
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>DatabaseAccess</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.runoob.test.DatabaseAccess</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>DatabaseAccess</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/TomcatTest/DatabaseAccess</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
....

Now call this Servlet, enter the link: http://localhost:8080/TomcatTest/DatabaseAccess, and the following response result will be displayed:

Create test data
Access the database