WebSphere Application Server - IBM Redbooks

Important: If you are using the Online Catalog sample from the IBM
Redbooks site, you will notice that the FeaturedItemXMLServlet contains
additional lines of code for the xslContent string. We did this because we
wanted to incorporate our template into the HTML output.
Importing the SQLToXML jar file
At runtime, the SQLToXML jar file will be needed to access objects in the servlet.
To be available, it needs to be placed in the WEB-INF\lib folder of the project.
1. Open the Web perspective.
2. While in the Project Navigator view navigate to the
OnlineCatalog/WebContent/WEB-INF directory and select the lib folder.
3. Select File > Import from the main menu and then select File system from
the Import dialog.
4. Click Next.
5. Browse to
\wstools\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.etools.sqltoxml_5.1\jars.
6. Click OK.
7. Expand the jars tree, then select the sqltoxml.jar check box.
8. Set the destination folder to be OnlineCatalog/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib.
9. Click Finish. The JAR file appears in the
OnlineCatalog/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib directory. Your application server will
need to be restarted before your changes take effect.
Step 6: Adding a page to the Web site diagram
With the FeaturedItemXMLServlet servlet completed, we can add a link to the
index.html page of our application that will call the servlet and then output the
featured item list.
1. Open the Web perspective.
2. Expand the OnlineCatalog project and open the Web site diagram editor by
double-clicking Web Site Configuration.
3. Right-click the index.html page diagram icon and select Add New Page -> As
Child from the context menu. This adds a new page icon to the diagram.
4. Change the Navigation Label from newpage to Featured Item.
5. Double-click the Featured Item page diagram icon and enter the page value of
FeaturedItemXMLServlet. This is the URL mapping value that we specified
when the servlet was created.
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