Recording Web Page Accesses Using Listeners

Introduction

In this project, you will learn how to implement a web page access tracking functionality using a listener. The goal of this project is to create a web application that can display the number of users currently accessing the home page.

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🎯 Tasks

In this project, you will learn:

• How to implement the MyListener.java class to track the number of hits to the home page.
• How to implement the index.jsp file to display the current visitors count.
• How to configure the MyListener in the web.xml file.
• How to start the Tomcat server and test the application.

🏆 Achievements

After completing this project, you will be able to:

• Use the HttpSessionListener interface to track user sessions.
• Store and retrieve the visitors count in the ServletContext.
• Display the visitors count in a JSP file.
• Configure a listener in the web.xml file.
• Start and test a web application using Tomcat.