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 the amount of data is somewhat large (or could be, like a textarea's entry perhaps), then session tends to be frowned upon because it becomes a performance concern and a potential problem in a distributed environment. But if the size is small, session makes life easier, but be aware that server resources are being eaten with sessions, therefore if you envision a rather large client load, it can become an issue (but this tends to be solvable just by throwing hardware at the problem most of the time). -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Sun, September 19, 2004 6:02 pm, Craig Berry said: > 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 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Cc: > Subject: persistence after the request response cycle > Hi All, > > In my present set up I have a servlet serving a HTML > page, the HTML page returns the form data via POST > which the same servlet saves to a MySQL database. > > 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 responses from HTML pages 1 & 2 to the > MySQL database. > > How can I get the servlet to remember or persist the > response of HTML page 1 without writing to the > database or to file. > > Thanks > Ian > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! > Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
