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Servlet JSP Date

This example uses servlets and JSP to show today’s date.

DateServlet.java adds the formatted date to the request and then forwards the request to the JSP file:

package io.happycoding.servlets;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import jakarta.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import jakarta.servlet.ServletException;

@WebServlet("/date")
public class DateServlet extends HttpServlet {

  @Override
  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
      throws IOException, ServletException {

    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat =
        new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm aa 'on' EEEE, MMMM dd, yyyy");
    Date now = new Date();
    String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(now);

    request.setAttribute("date", formattedDate);
    request.getRequestDispatcher("/date-view.jsp").forward(request,response);
  }
}

date-view.jsp uses expression language (EL) to get the formatted date from the request, and outputs it in HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Current Time</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Current Time</h1>
    <p>The current time is ${date}</p>
  </body>
</html>

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