Now, let us have a look how you need to do when using SoybeanMilk.

First, you must write a Java class, just like the following example:

package my;

public class User{
    private Integer id;
    private String name;
}

public class UserManager
{
    public void save(User user){ ... }
    
    public List<User> list(){ ... }
}

Next, add the following configuration file named "soybean-milk.cfg.xml" to "/WEB-INF" folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE soybean-milk PUBLIC "-//SoybeanMilk//DTD soybeanMilk web//EN"
		"http://soybeanmilk.googlecode.com/files/soybeanMilk-web-1.0.dtd">
<soybean-milk>
        <resolvers>
                <resolver id="userManager" class="my.UserManager" />
        </resolvers>

        <executables>
                <action name="/user/add.do">
                        <invoke> userManager.save(param.user) </invoke>
                        <target url="/user/list.do" type="redirect" />
                </action>
                
                <action name="/user/list.do">
                        <invoke> request.userList = userManager.list() </invoke>
                        <target url="/user/list.jsp" />
                </action>
        </executables>
</soybean-milk>

OK, the work "Save user" and "Find all users" is finish (The JSP pages are omitted).

Now, add the following XML codes into your "web.xml":

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>dispatchServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.soybeanMilk.web.servlet.DispatchServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>dispatchServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Put SoybeanMilk and it's dependent library

soybeanMilk-[version].jar
commons-beanutils-1.8.2.jar
commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
commons-logging-api-1.1.jar
log4j-1.2.14.jar (Optional)

into "/WEB-INF/lib" folder.

That's OK!
Now, start the web server, and type "http://[yourApp]/user/add.do?user.id=1&user.name=jack" in your internet explorer, user "jack" will be saved and displayed in "/user/list.jsp" page.