How to maintain a counter in jsp to know how many times the page is visited?

[ilias basha]

Hi,

I have a servlet code where an instance variable of Sevlet will be incremented each time the Servlet's service/doGet/doPost is invoked. By this way i am able to know how many times the partcular Servlet is requested..

here is code for the same.

 
public class WelcomeServlet extends javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet implements javax.servlet.Servlet {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 464346461316L;
	private int i=0;
	private PrintWriter printWriter = null;
	
	public WelcomeServlet() {
		super();
	}   	

	/* (non-Java-doc)
	 * @see javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
	 */

	protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
		printWriter = response.getWriter();		
		printWriter.write("WelcomeServlet Servlet <br> current date is :: "+new java.util.Date());
		printWriter.write("<br><br>This page has been refreshed "+(this.i++)+" no. of times");
		printWriter = null;
	}  	

	/* (non-Java-doc)
	 * @see javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet#doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
	 */
	protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
		doGet(request, response);
	}   	  	    
}
   

My Question is now how to write a jsp which is exactly equivalent to the above given Servlet - specifically with respect to having an instance variable??

[santosh dhulipala]

this can be done by putting the variable in application scope incrementing by geting the value from scope and restoring by which it can be accesed from jsp's hope i am correct