I'm suppose to write a servlet that returns a randomly chosen greeting from a list of five different greetings. The greetings must be stored as constant strings in the program.

This is all I've gotten so far and when I try to run it all it returns is "Hello World" which isn't even one of the greetings.

Any help would be appreciated...

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Random;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;



public class asgnmnt {


protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

String[] myStrings = {"This is the first random message", "A chicken crossed the
road", "Its cold outside", "The tree is green", "School is almost over"},

try {
/* TODO output your page here. You may use following sample code. */
out.println("<!DOCTYPE html>");
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet RandomMessage</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<h1>Servlet RandomMessage</h1>");
Random r = new Random( );
out.println(myStrings[r.nextInt(myStrings.length)]);
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
} finally {
out.close();
}}}}

There's no "Hello World" string in your code. This leads me to believe that either you are running a different page/code, or you have not saved your changes, or haven't uploaded your code to the right place, etc..

here's my .jsp file...Also asgment has been changed to checkMate.

Now I get the following error:

HTTP Status 404 -

type Status report

message

descriptionThe requested resource () is not available.

GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.1

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action ="checkMate"  method ="get">
            <p>
                Press the button to run the Servlet
                <input type ="submit"  value ="Run Servlet" />
            </p>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

A 404 error means "page not found". I suspect you get that error when you try to submit the form. Your form action is equl to "checkMate". Maybe that should be "checkMate.jsp" or something similar?

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