Attn Shawn: Java Server Pages (JSP) port - please take a look

I've completed a port of the AdNetwork to Java Server Pages, and would like someone to take a look at it to make sure the ads it serves up would pass validation. If everything looks ok, I'll post the code.

www.xmeta.com/jspad.jsp

 

They show up fine in FireFox.

When I disable Java and or Javascript individually or both then they still show up.

Nice work.

 

Of course, because JSP runs at the server not the client... The client only sees normal HTML

 

I remembered Shawn saying those were the criteria. I'm not that familiar with it (What JSP outputs) so I thought I'd check it. If it's the same principle as ASP or PHP where it's server side then yes, there should be no reason why it wouldn't work. I guess it was a rather unneccesary check, never mind!

 

If you are refering to the /> at the end of the anchor start tag, the PHP version seems to be doing this too. Look at the ads at the bottom of the home page for xmeta.com, which is currently using PHP. They have the same thing, and this is straight digitalpoint code.

Mostly. Here is what I have so far:

I am doing persistance a little differently, since I wanted to cache the results to RAM to speed things up. However, it does save changes to disk so that it won't request a slew of ads everytime the server is restarted. The code will throw an error if it can't save the ads, though I will do some more checking to make sure that this always happens before the first ad is requested.

The code uses Java's synchronization mechanism to ensure that multiple threads cannot write to the file at the same time. It works a little differently than the file locking in PHP, in that other threads simply wait in a queue to get access to the file.

I'll have to reexamine the PHP code and mine to make sure I handled the dynamic parameters correctly. I'll take a look at it when I get home tonight. If you have a second, could you give a brief explanation on what you would like to see here?

It currently uses whatever Sun's java default user agent is, but I'll give it something more specific. Anything in particular you would like to see here (keyphrase, etc)?

 

Thanks for the info on the dynamic stuff. Any comments on the slash issue?

 

Ok, I think I fixed all the problems and made it compliant with your guidelines. The latest example plus binaries, source, and instructions are at www xmeta.com/jspad.jsp

 

Shawn, any chance you can take one more look and see if the page serves ads that wll validate properly?

 

Sorry, I didn't mean that you should install the code, just maybe do a manual validation of the jspad.jsp page on xmeta.com to see if it would pass. I plan to switch my site over to JSP next weekend, and would like it to validate when I do.

I understand that you are a busy guy, so if it takes you a while to get around to it, that's ok.

 

I tried that. I changed the URL in my account settings to the following:

http://www.xmeta.com/jspad.jsp

However, it said that ads could not be found on the following URL:

http://www.xmeta.com/jspad.jsp/

Note the trailing slash, which I assume your code is adding. Anyway, I guess I will move it to a subfolder with an index page and try again later. Just thought I would mention this, since it looks like validation fails when you try to use an individual page instead of a directory URL.

 

Ok, I moved the files to the following URL and it passed validation:

http://www.xmeta.com/jspad/

Looks like it is good to go. Thanks for your help Shawn, and thanks for creating such a great resource.

 

Hi Reigmer

I have spent many hours on trying to make the php version appear within the footer of my wowbb to no avail. I wondered if you would be happy to help install your javascript version. I have tried this but have not been successful in making this work either.

Kind Regards

Colin
www camping-ads.co.uk

 

Hi rgeimer

Please could you help me install your java version on my wowbb site footer.

I have been trying for nearly a week to make the PHP version work.

Kind Regards

Colin

 

Sorry I didn't see this earlier, but I doubt if I could help anyway. My code will only work with sites that use Java Server Pages (i.e. JSP files). If you are using PHP on your site it won't work, and I'm pretty sure that wowbb is PHP only.

If you are unsure if you are using JSPs, then you aren't, because it takes quite a bit of work to get a JSP site up and running, and very few ISPs support it.