The purpose of this assignment is to help you become more familiar with Servlets. As with the previous assignment, the application is a vocabulary builder. This week, you should build an improved vocabulary builder with Servlets and deploy it on the Hermes Cluster.
Grading: Nonworking implementations will not receive any credit. A minimal, but working implementation will receive 7 to 9 points. For full credit, use servlets, follow decent usability standards, avoid bugs, and exceed the minimal requirements by some identifiable delta. Really super solutions are eligible for a bonus point.
Provide links that make it easy for the GTA to access all of the various files that your solution uses. (1 point)
As with previous assignments, a paper copy of your assignment is required if you are present in class. If you are absent, a paper copy is not required. (1 point)
Update: Friday, November 6
For those students interested in using Ajax in this assignment,
you should be aware that Ajax imposes rules on the relation between
the URL of a loaded page and URLs that may be called through
Ajax. (Violations of this policy result in a security exception
when the open() method is called on the XMLHttpRequest
object.)
To help you navigate this, I have put together a servlet variant of
the suggest program.
It's not a very smart variant;
it just reports that it can't think of a suggestion.
But it does handle the Ajax call in a way that satisfies
the security mechanism.
Files are: