Hi,
I'm fairly new to web application development...so my question may appear standard to some of you, but I'll appreciate some pointers in the right direction.
I need to create a page which when somebody accesses using a GET request and passing in some parameters for stock tickers would show stock charts for those companies. My initial thought is that this would be done within a
JSP page from which I would call a
servlet and pass in each of those stock tickers one by one (thus making multiple servlet calls). Then those images returned would be displayed somehow in the JSP. Is that how it should work?
Also, initially I will just have some static images that my servlet will pull and display. But, in a real world scenariom where would these images be generated from? Let's say I want to show a chart for the last 5 years, that chart would obviously be different today than it will be 2 years from now. So somehow this chart needs to be generated dynamically. How would this be accomplished?
Thanks.