Re: Need Suggestions

["David Duerr" <dduerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Mike,

I am not sure I understand your problem exactly, but I would suggest getting
familiar with the javax.servlet.http.HttpSession interface.  Using its
putValue and getValue methods you can "store" objects in one servlet and
"retrieve" them in another servlet.  I am not sure that HttpSession is the
solution to your problem, but any application using multiple servlets will
probably need to implement an HttpSession object.

You could also share data between HTML windows with different techniques in
javascript.  However, I would highly recommend the use of server-side java
over javascript in any case when either would apply, especially when moving
data from one page to the next.

Are you using JSPs?  If not, I would suggest moving in that direction.  It
is a powerful, yet easy to learn technology.

Thanks,
Dave Duerr


----- Original Message -----
From: Gibbons, Michael <bmis04@MARYWOOD1.MARYWOOD.EDU>
To: 'Java-L' <java400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 4:07 PM
Subject: Need Suggestions


> Hello,
>
> I have written a java servlet that generates an input page (3 input
fields).
> when the submit button is clicked another servlet is called that takes
that
> input and produces a result.
> The question is this. When the submit button is clicked on the second page
> (result page) I want to pass
> along the same 3 input fields from the first page to the next page but
these
> input fields do not exist on the result page.
> Is there a way to carry unseen data thru page to page in the html? Is
there
> a better way in java? I tried <input type="hidden"> but this only stops
the
> browser from displaying it. The values of the hidden field show up in the
> generated html.
>
> THANKS in ADVANCE!
>
> Michael P. Gibbons
> Manager of Programming & Technical Services
> MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY
> 2300 Adams Ave.
> Scranton, PA 18509
>
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