JSP pages not refreshing after save

You have started JSP/J2EE development with installation of Tomcat. Everything looks fine, your code runs well, but all of a sudden you find that your JSP pages doesn't get refreshed as you save them after editing. This is quite frustrating, you search out on GOOGLE and don't find any thing good to solve your problem.

Try these simple tip below :

For development environment of Tomcat 5.5 set following parameters in web.xml file.

Development = true
modificationTestInterval = 0

Things should work for you.

Filtering special characters from FORM inputs

Filtering of special characters in FORM Submit is one of the problems faced by a novice programmer in J2EE/Java/JSP development. Best practice to avoid it and get the special characters filtered automatically is to use JDBC preparedStatements rather than Statements classes of JDBC.