Turning a JSP into a JAVA file

Hello, I have a class the purpose of which is to grab the HTML from a given URL or set of URLs that I hardcode in it. I have a JSP that I was given that already does this. I was told that I need to put it in a normal Java file so I can run it and test it and my code can be put where it belongs by another developer. So far I've worked a lot of the kinks out but I'm a little confused by what I got on another forum. Below is my code:

Code:

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.Locale;


public class htmlOutput {

        /**
        * @param args
        */


        public static void main(String[] args) {
                pageContext.setAttribute("enBean","en");
               
                Locale locale = (Locale) session.getAttribute(Globals.LOCALE_KEY);
                if (locale == null) {
                        locale = new Locale(Constants.LOCALE_EN);
                }
               
                // Setting the session attribute indicating entry from index page
                session.setAttribute(Constants.ENTER_FROM_INDEX, new Boolean(true));
               
                URL headerURL;
                URLConnection headerURLConnection;
                BufferedReader br;
               
                String inputLine;
               
        try {
            headerURL = new URL("*");
            headerURL = new URL("*");
            headerURL = new URL("*");
            headerURLConnection = headerURL.openConnection();
            br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(headerURLConnection.getInputStream()));

            while ((inputLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
                System.out.println(inputLine);
            }
           
        } catch (MalformedURLException me) {
            System.out.println("MalformedURLException: " + me);
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println("IOException: " + ioe);
        }finally{
                br.close();
        }
       
        //Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("./html_compare.ksh");

        }

}

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It is giving me some errors on pageContext, session, Globals, Constants, and out saying they cannot be resolved or cannot be resolved to a variable and I was told by extracting a delegate class to do the work you avoid pageContext and session and for the most part you avoid Globals and Constants. They said I would need to create some new methods for this but didn't give much more information to which I asked:

I know I'll need multiple methods. I guess the thing that confuses me are things like:

pageContext.setAttribute("enBean","en");

Should pageContext be a method and therefore this would be an object of that method?

Also:

Code:

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Locale locale = (Locale) session.getAttribute(Globals.LOCALE_KEY);
if (locale == null) {
locale = new Locale(Constants.LOCALE_EN);

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For this what should session, Globals and Constants be? Should they also be separate methods and therefore I'm calling objects?

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Crossposted: Turning a JSP into a JAVA file

Thanks for the heads-up, Kevin.

db

Strip out all the server and JSP specific code like pageContext etc to get some code that will compile and execute.

Do you know anything about JSPs, servlets and how they all work inside a container (eg Tomcat)?
Because you should realise (as Norm suggests) that most of that initial stuff is not necessary for the task at hand.

Also, from your description, is this supposed to be a standalone app, or a utility class that can be used from elsewhere? If the latter than sticking this in a main() method strikes me as the wrong way to be going about this...indeed, either way it is probably the wrong way to tbe going about this.