Re: [TCLUG-DEVEL:168] ideas?

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Erick Stohr (erick@pagelab.net):
> I've got a servlet that I am writing that takes user input from the web
> and puts it into the database. It is becoming more of a project than
> expected. My question is can anyone give any advice on how I should do
> this? An applet has been ruled out, for now, I would like to do it as a
> servlet or servlets.
> Basically there need to be 3 different forms for inputing data, I was
> thinking of one that does a POST to the doPost in the servlet, a second
> that is generated by the doPost as a doGet and it's content depends on
> some input in the first form, and there needs to be a third who's
> content depends on the seconds input. Should I do 2 servlets and store
> data in a session? Or does anybody have an easier way, or can I even do
> it the way I am thinking? Thanks.

Why not use interservlet communication?

Depending on which jsdk you are using, you can use the

	public Servlet ServletContext.getServlet(String name)

Servlet #1 gets its data from the user, it needs to send that user to Servlet
#2, you can just getServlet("servlet2") and pass your info onto it.


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