On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 07:25:26PM +0100, ian stone wrote:
: I'd like to extend the present setup so that after
: receiving the 1st POST data, the servlet responds with
: HTML page 2. HTML page 2 then returns form data via
: POST to the same servlet. The servlet would then save
: the accumulated
The usual mechanism for this is to persist intermediate data to a session-scope object
which is persisted after all data has been accumulated. Struts provides excellent
support for this pattern.
-Original Message-
From: ian stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 9/19/2004 11:25
The other common approach is to re-send the data for page 1 as hidden form
fields with the page 2 form submission. That way, the second time the
servlet is executed, it is getting all the required data as part of
request.
As a general rule (which is broken often for one reason or another!), if
