can you help me understanding what that program does ?

[kaalaoui]

hello; i'm working on an old application wich i'm asked to improve.
i don't understand what this program does exactly??, i'm a begginer at java J2EE developing.

the code is enclosed attachement : code.txt

plzzz help to understand what does this program if there's a way to improve it, if there's tutorials or articls wich can help me understanding this code ??

[gimbal2]

Its a servlet that does things and stuff with XML. Its not a program and its not even the complete source.

[SurfMan]

I know this looks scary: file:\\\\\\C:\\edi\\genericNew.xsl

[gimbal2]

Didn't even spot that. So its code produced by some student who had no architectural vision to realize that hard-coding OS-specific absolute paths in code, especially in a component of a web application, is basically as wrong as you can make it.

[kaalaoui]

thank you for your answer, i know it's a servlet , what i want to know
is the " stuff" that does with xml files, this is the part of the source don't understand.
does this servlet an xml validation for the file ??

[gimbal2]

There is XSL involved, so I'm guessing it is transforming XML. That's about as much as I'm going to say about it.