Netbeans Tutorial for Servlet Programming

1. Create New Project using File Menu  New Project or by Ctrl + Shift + N, you will get
following wizard.

2. In Step 1, select Java Web from Categories, and select Web Application from Projects.
Then click on Next button.

3. In Step 2 give the suitable Project Name (ServletExample) and Project Location (D:\)
to your web application and then click on Next button.
4. Step 3 is about Server and Settings, in that you can select server, J2EE version etc.
Choose J2EE 1.4 as Java EE Version in this step, and click on Next button.

5. Step 4 is about to choose Frameworks, in that you can add different framework to your
web application like Java Server Faces, Hibernate etc. Then click on Finish button.
6. New web application named ServletExample is created. By default one index.jsp file is
created and it has been set as a welcome page. You can see project window on left pane,
in that directory structure of current project is shown. You can see different directories
like Web Pages, Source Packages, and Libraries etc.

7. Now we want create a new servlet file, for that there are different ways. One of them is
just right click on ServletExample (Project Name), select New  Servlet as shown
below.
8. Now you will get following Steps wizard. You have already chosen file type so no need
to go for Step1, in Step 2 you have to provide appropriate class name (FirstServlet) to you
Servlet, and click on Next button.
9. In Step 3 you have to configure servlet deployment (web.xml), in that you have to
provide Servlet name which is similar to class name and URL Pattern for accessing that
servlet page by that way.

10. Check at left pane in project window, FirstServlet.java file is created under Source
Packages in default package. You can also check in right pane when servlet file is created
some default code are added automatically like a public class with similar name with file
name etc.
11. You may check Web.xml file for Servlet Configuration.
Open Web Pages  WEB-INF  web.xml you can see deployment of FirstServlet is
done by netbeans. No need to do manually.

12. Now in FirstServlet.java file do following changes.

13. Save FirstServlet and go to the Run menu select Run File option to execute servlet fie.
You can also do with Shift + F6.
14. Now will get following dialog box to set Servlet Execution URI. By default URI is same
that you had given at the time of file creation. Just click on Ok button.
15. You will get following output in your default browser.

16. We can also set some parameters for servlet file. For that open web.xml file again and
click on Servlet tab as below. For setting initial parameter click on Add button as shown
below. Set parameters and its value and click on ok button.
17. Now check the xml documentation by clicking on XML tag as below.