I am not sure to understand your question properly, but you could just add
an ID in the object to send to the servlet which would tell what method
should be called in the servlet... So your entry-point in the servlet
becomes some kind of method dispatcher...
But maybe I didn't understand your question properly...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sohaila Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Applets wanting to call a Servlets from within
> This is totally helpfull, tho I have one more question with respect to
> it.. if my servlet has specific functions in it and for different
> functions of my applet I want to call those different functions in the
> servlet would I be able to do that? I see where you do the
> outputData.writeObject(hash) to the servlet.. would I have to do that
> instead of being able to call the servlets different functions and then
> i'd have to have multiple servlets each only doing one task?
>
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Raymond Cordero wrote:
>
> > Here is some sample code all of it is not needed only I am passing the
> > Servlets some values stored in a Hashtable. Of course wrap in the
necessary
> > try/catch clause
> >
> > URL testServlet = new URL(codeBase,
> > "/servlet/Item/GetItemList");
> >
> > ObjectOutputStream outputData = null;
> >
> > URLConnection servletConnection =
testServlet.openConnection();
> > // inform the connection that we will send output and accept
> > input
> > servletConnection.setDoInput(true);
> > servletConnection.setDoOutput(true);
> >
> > // Don't use a cached version of URL connection.
> > servletConnection.setUseCaches(false);
> > servletConnection.setDefaultUseCaches(false);
> >
> > // Specify the content type that we will send binary data
> > servletConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
> > "application/octet-stream");
> >
> > // send the object to the servlet using serialization
> > outputData = new
> > ObjectOutputStream(servletConnection.getOutputStream());
> > outputData.writeObject(hash);
> >
> > outputData.flush();
> > outputData.close();
> > ObjectInputStream inputStream = new
> > ObjectInputStream(servletConnection.getInputStream());
> > tempVector = (Vector) inputStream.readObject();
> > inputStream.close();
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sohaila Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:08 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Applets wanting to call a servlet from within
> >
> >
> > Hi, is it possible to call a servlet to do a certain function from
within
> > the code of an applet? If so how exactly would it be set up..
> > Thanks
> >
> > Sohaila
> >
> >
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