[Problem Description]

In this exam you are going to develop an online voting application for American Idol. Your application  must use the MVC architecture as discussed in class, and the application must meet the following requirements:

• Servlets cannot be used to generate HTML content.
• No scripting elements are allowed in JSP pages.

The application should consist of a Voting page and a Contestants page. The Voting page allows a user to vote on a contestant, as shown below:

After a user casts a vote, the application should record the vote, then redirect the user back to the voting page with the message "Thank you for your vote. Please keep voting.", as shown below:

A user can vote for whoever they want for as many times as they want.

The Contestants page should show the contestants and the numbers of votes they received. For example:

The contestants should be ordered by the number of votes they received in descending order. The contestants with the same number of votes should be ordered alphabetically. There should be a Voted Off link beside the last-place contestant, and clicking on this link will remove the contestant from the application. Note that if a contestant is voted off, their name should be removed from the Voting page too.

[Grading Criteria]

• Voting (20pt)
  
• Contestants and votes display (35pt)
• Voted off (25pt)
• Everything works correctly on the CS3 server (20pt)
• midterm.html is missing or doesn't have the correct links to the two pages (-5pt)
• Please do not modify your files on the CS3 server after the due time. Doing so will be considered cheating.