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Figure 4.15 – Generated project layout
Because you chose IBM WASCE v2.1 as the target runtime, a Community Edition
configuration file geronimo-web.xml will be created in the WEB-INF folder. This
folder will be used for the Web project to define the Web context as well as some
resource references in the later sections.
4.3.2 Create a JSP and configure the data source reference
In a Java EE programming environment, to access data in a database you normally need
to write code that performs the following:
1. Initialize a JNDI naming context and look up the JDBC data source
2. Get the database connection, execute SQL statements, and present the data
3. Close the database connection
Let’s create a JSP file to implement the database access logic:
1. In Eclipse, right click on the WebContent folder, then New -> JSP to create a JSP file
as shown in Figure 4.16.