Along the way, we learned about the Eclipse IDE, the Eclipse Web Project, JSP pages, how to add a Tomcat server to the IDE, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON and CSS. This week we wrap up the series by adding code to process ENTER and TAB keystrokes, and keeping the list open when returning from another page. [...]

In the last article, we examined two visual features that could be used to enhance the appearance of the Autocomplete control. This week we’ll be delving into the last major functional piece of our Autocomplete Control: key event handlers. By Rob Gravelle. 0716
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This week we continue to add functionality and tweak the appearance of our control by implementing search string matching in the list items and by adding a CSS drop shadow effect. By Rob Gravelle. 0918
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This week we look at how to add a vertical scrollbar to the list. We’re also going to use a parameter to set the list size, so a vertical scrollbar will appear when the number of items exceeds it. By Rob Gravelle. 0605
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In this series we’ve built a fully functional Autocomplete control within Eclipse. For the remaining installments, we’ll be updating the Autocomplete control’s layout to CSS, decoupling it from the Autocomplete.jsp page, tweaking the appearance of the list, and implementing additional functionality. By Rob Gravelle. 0522
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In the last article, you learned how AJAX can be used to link the contents of a select field to a parent one. Now we’re going to use AJAX to create an Autocomplete text field using the Eclipse Web Tools Platform with the Apache Tomcat server. By Rob Gravelle. 0326
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This week we’ll construct the The Fund Java class, which will act as a container for all the fund’s properties. On the server, we’ll store a collection of funds to be searched. Matching ones will be converted to a JSON array and returned to the browser for displaying in our Autocomplete list. By Rob Gravelle. [...]

This week we’ll be developing the AutocompleteServlet. The servlet acts much like an ASP, Perl or PHP script in that it’s executed by the server and accepts parameters from the browser. By Rob Gravelle. 0409
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In part 3 of the series, we added the brains behind our Autocomplete text field’s search functionality. Now it’s time to turn our attention to the Web components. This week we’ll create the CSS file, since it, along with the JavaScript file, need to be linked to the AutocompleteSearch.jsp page. By Rob Gravelle. 0416
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