Hi,
This certainly can be done with servlets. One approach would be to give
the user a HTML form, with fields to fill in, and use the 'submit' on
this to contact a servlet. The servlet would contain JDBC elements
linking this to your database, and would return the results of the query
to the user's browser as dynamically generated HTML (note - applets
aren't necessary, although it is another way of doing things).
If you check out the JDBC & Servlet sections of the Tutorial, I think
you'll see how it would all fit together - it is pretty straightforward
& effective, and once you've got the basic system set up, seriously
versatile.
Cheers,
Danny.
"Jihad J. Richa" wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to build an applet that needs to connect to the several remote
> and local DBMSs (3 remote and 1 local) for data retrieval in response to a
> user input request.
>
> Since I am new to this, I thought using a servlet engine would allow me to
> do that. But all I can figure out is that the servlet can only respond to
> the browser with a message of some sort to be displayed (the JSDK
> documentation also talked about MIME, but I am not sure how that could be
> used.) Idealy what I would like to do is have the servlet return the data
> elements the user requested from the DBMS (just to fill the empty fields in
> the displayed applet after the user submits the query.)
>
> Can this be done using a Servlet ? and How ?
> If not, what tools should I be using to do that ?
>
> Thank you all in advance.
>
> Jihad
>
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