Sounds like you want some kind of persistent storage that cross multiple requests. If I am reading you correctly, rather than have one servlet do both the html and png, you've split the functionality into two servlets.
Assuming you're using tomcat 4, you should be able to create a light-weight application that uses a map. I can think of a couple different ways to tackle the problem. 1. store the lat/long in the session. One down side of this is it may bog down the session object if your object increases in size 2. create an application wide map that stores an object containing the geocode (lat/long), using session as the key 3. store in a database using the session id as key 4. store it in some other persistent datastore 5. pass the lat/long in the URL the map generation servlet creates for the html servlet I'm not sure how you're generating the map url, since it sounds like the map servlet handles that. I'm assuming the map servlet takes an address or an equivalent to generate the graphic. You might want to provide more specific information like the process flow to get better help. peter Vijay Kandy wrote: > > Dear All, > > We are building a map tool - to draw maps and show some data on them. Now, I > have this situation. I have a servlet that gets coordinates from the > database and draws the map on its OutputStream (the content type is set to > png image). There is another servlet (content type is text/html) that embeds > the URL of the first servlet. This servlet also gets coordinates from the > database, and populates them over the image so I can do some image map or > mouseOver() tricks using javascript. I was wondering if there was a way to > make just one call to the database and share the coordinates between the > servlets. Right now, I will try any thing! > > Thank you, > Vijay > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
