Re: New to JSP world

"bill" <captain_gni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
: Hi all,
:
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: I have
: a simple form. Call it form #1 which contains a textfield for an e-mail
: address and a submit button. I use form #1 to connect to a db2 database
: via a supplied java based API that was written by my company. This API
: then returns some XML about the person attached to that e-mail address.
: If the e-mail address is not found I need to redirect to an eror page.
: If the e-mail address IS found in the database, I need to strip out
: just the e-mail address, put it into some kind of variable and redirect
: the user to another form (Form #2) populating the e-mail field in Form
: #2 with that same e-mail address. What techniques should I be looking
: into to learn what I need to know? If it were php and mySql I could
: have had the project finished in the length of time ot took me to write
: this post lol. Thanks All!
:
I assume you need to write the form-action handler to process the submit button action. In that
case, you have two options:

1. Servlet
2. Scriptlet

I personally prefer Servlet over Scriptlet because I want to keep java code separate from the jsp.

..K


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