How To Edit/Add JSP Pages in NetBeans IDE

15 April 2007

NetBeans IDE is very useful for J2EE application development. It provides support for developing EJB, WebServices, JSP, Servlets along with the J2EE components. Here is an introduction of developing JSP pages using NetBeans IDE.

NetBeans has full feature support for generating HTML elements, JSP tags, database JSP tags automatically.

Some basic information of JSP tags are listed below to brush up your knowledge in JSP.

Tag ” taglib ” is used to include JSTL library in JSP page. Listed below is an usage.
<%@taglib uri=”http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core” prefix=”c”%>
Tag “c:” tag is used to check some conditions. Listed below is an usage.
<c:if test=”isNew” var=”car” scope=”request”>
</c:if>
Tag ” sql” is used for database related operations.

There are various tags in JSTL Library. Netbeans help us to include those to the our JSP pages without much programming effort..

Follow these steps to get familiar with JSP development in NetBeans

Create a “Web Project” in the “Projects” tab in the IDE.
Then “ Web Pages ” - > “ JSP …” - > “ New ”.

Following screen will be displayed where file related information can be filled.

Fill the information, Click “ Finish ” .JSP page will be created with some default JSP code. A palette viewer will be displayed at right side in IDE, where various options for generating JSP tags can be found.

Here user can click on buttons to generate necessary HTML/JSP code. For Example click on “ Use Bean ” button inside the JSP category then following window will be appeared .Fill the required information.