I should also point out the presentation Ted Husted did at The Ajax Experience last week which dealt largely with APT. The slides for that presentation are here:
http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/images/Presentations/Husted_Ted_RetrofittingStruts.pdf I'm not quite sure how long they will stay posted there though, so get it while it's hot :) Frank On Wed, October 31, 2007 10:48 am, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > On Wed, October 31, 2007 10:19 am, Ingo Villnow wrote: >> i want to call an action by javascript, when a value in a <html:select> >> field changes. I want to fill my <html:form> with the data provided by >> the action. Any ideas? I don't know a lot of javascript :-( > > There's a couple if ways you could do that... one would be to call the > submit() method of the form object, which every form in HTML has, then > re-render the page with the updated data in the form. That's of course > going to refresh the entire page, which I suspect isn't what you want. > > So, AJAX is probably what you want. Now, how you go about doing that, > well, there's a few hundred options :) Because you don't know a lot of > Javascript, you might want to consider the AjaxParts Taglib (APT) from > Java Web Parts (JWP): > > http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net > > Direct to APT: > > http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/javadocs/javawebparts/ajaxparts/taglib/package-summary.html > > If you go to the download page, the cookbook has some examples that are > very much along the lines of what you're asking for. If you go that > route, we'll be more than happy on the JWP mailing list, or forums. > > Otherwise, prototype (http://www.prototypejs.org) is a good, simple > option, but you will be writing some Javascript. > >> thanks & greetings from Berlin > > hth, > Frank > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]