strange servlet problem

**creeping death** · December 31st, 2008, 08:16 AM

hi

i m a total servlet n00b...so i dont quite understand what is happening here.

i got a javascript from the net ( http://scripts.hashemian.com/js/countdown.js )

i saved it onto my hard-drive. as countdown.js...

i then wrote a servlet program whose code is shown below:
[/b](case1)[/b]

Code:

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;

public class Execute extends HttpServlet

{

	public void service(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)throws ServletException,IOException

	{

		res.setContentType("text/html");
		PrintWriter out=res.getWriter();
		out.println("<html>");
		out.println("<head>");
		out.println("</head>");
		out.println("<body>");
                out.println("<script language=\"JavaScript\">");
                out.println("TargetDate = \"1/1/2009 12:00 AM\"");
                out.println("BackColor = \"palegreen\"");
                out.println("ForeColor = \"navy\"");
                out.println("CountActive = true");
                out.println("CountStepper = -1");
                out.println("LeadingZero = true");
                out.println("DisplayFormat = \"%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours, %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds. for new years\"");
                out.println("FinishMessage = \"It is finally here!\"");
                out.println("</script>");
                out.println("<script language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"countdown.js\"></script>");		
		out.println("<p>it works!!</p>");
	        out.println("</body></html>");
	        out.close();

         }

}

the java file(Execute.java) and javascript(countdown.js) are in the same folder...sitting beside each other.

i then compile the java file and i then create a .war file...
the war file, i deploy on the apache-tomcat server, using the tomcat manager. but when i run the servlet, the javascript does not run.
(case2)
when i set "src=" as ,

Code:

out.println("<script language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"http://scripts.hashemian.com/js/countdown.js\"></script>");

and again deploy it on tomcat server, the script gets fetched from the http:// website and runs.

(case3)
when i create a html file as shown below

Code:

<html>
<body>


<script language="JavaScript">
TargetDate = "1/1/2009 12:00 AM";
BackColor = "palegreen";
ForeColor = "navy";
CountActive = true;
CountStepper = -1;
LeadingZero = true;
DisplayFormat = "%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours, %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds. for new years";
FinishMessage = "It is finally here!";
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="countdown.js"></script>

<p> it works!! </p>

</body>
</html>

the script that i have saved(and i call) on the harddisk runs and everything works out.

so thats my story.

In case(1) the js file saved on the hard-disk is called, but it does not get executed
In case(2) the same js file is retrived from the internet and the script gets executed
In case(3) instead of using a servlet i create a static html page and call the javascript saved on the hdd and it works

the servlets "web.xml" files code is as shown below

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"

    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"

    version="2.4">



    <servlet>

        <servlet-name>Execute</servlet-name>

        <servlet-class>Execute</servlet-class>

    </servlet>



    <servlet-mapping>

        <servlet-name>Execute</servlet-name>

        <url-pattern>/Execute</url-pattern>

    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

so why is it that case(1) does not work out but case(2) and case(3) work???

please help out.

if you dont understand what i m trying to say...i have uploaded the war files...they are only 5KB...it would be really nice...if you people could take a look at them and understand my problem first-hand.

1.war file that has javascript pointing to http://scripts.hashemian.com/js/countdown.js/ - http://www.savefile.com/files/1950654
2.war file that has javascript pointing to the local hard-disk - http://www.savefile.com/files/1950656

**creeping death** · December 31st, 2008, 10:19 AM

i viewed the sources that the plain html file and the servlet file generated...
they are exactly the same...yet the html file works , but the servlet file does not....what am i doing wrong?????

Code:

 <html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
 <script language="JavaScript">
 TargetDate = "1/1/2009 12:00 AM"
 BackColor = "palegreen"
 ForeColor = "navy"
 CountActive = true
 CountStepper = -1
 LeadingZero = true
 DisplayFormat = "%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours, %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds. for new years"
 FinishMessage = "It is finally here!"
 </script>
 <script language="JavaScript" src="countdown.js"></script>
 <p>it works!!</p>
 </body></html>

this generated by the servlet (source of: http://localhost:8080/execute/Execute - Mozilla Firefox)

and

Code:

 <html>
 <body>
 
 
 <script language="JavaScript">
 TargetDate = "1/1/2009 12:00 AM";
 BackColor = "palegreen";
 ForeColor = "navy";
 CountActive = true;
 CountStepper = -1;
 LeadingZero = true;
 DisplayFormat = "%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours, %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds. for new years";
 FinishMessage = "It is finally here!";
 </script>
 <script language="JavaScript" src="countdown.js"></script>
 
 <p> it works!! </p>
 
 </body>
 
 </html>

this generated by the html page (source of: file:///usr/local/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/webapps/examples/servlets/cd.html - Mozilla Firefox)
thats because i saved the html file and another copy of the same js file at /usr/local/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/webapps/examples/servlets/

**creeping death** · December 31st, 2008, 11:00 AM

solved...the problem was that

suppose the servlet url is http://xyz/bar/

so when i say

Code:

src="foo.js"

the server thinks that foo.js is in http://xyz/bar/...but i did not place foo.js there...that was causing all the problem.

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