hi all. I find myself in need of help/assistance with a longtime problem of mine and that is how do you get a servlet working with a backend database server?? Here is the basic SurveyServlet.java servlet and please notice that the database server in question is IBM's Cloudscape . after the servlet I have the html file which the servlet is supposed to work with. thanx in advance for anyone's help.

import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class SurveyServlet extends HttpServlet {
  private Connection connection;
  private PreparedStatement updateVotes, totalVotes, results;

  // set up database connection and prepare SQL statements
  public void init( ServletConfig config )
     throws ServletException
  {
     // attempt database connection and create PreparedStatements
     try {
        Class.forName( "COM.cloudscape.core.RmiJdbcDriver" );
        connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
           "jdbc:rmi:jdbc:cloudscape:animalsurvey" );

        // PreparedStatement to add one to vote total for a
        // specific animal
        updateVotes =
           connection.prepareStatement(
              "UPDATE surveyresults SET votes = votes + 1 " +
              "WHERE id = ?"
           );

        // PreparedStatement to sum the votes
        totalVotes =
           connection.prepareStatement(
              "SELECT sum( votes ) FROM surveyresults"
           );

        // PreparedStatement to obtain surveyoption table's data
        results =
           connection.prepareStatement(
              "SELECT surveyoption, votes, id " +
              "FROM surveyresults ORDER BY id"
           );
     }
// for any exception throw an UnavailableException to
     // indicate that the servlet is not currently available
     catch ( Exception exception ) {
        exception.printStackTrace();
        throw new UnavailableException( exception.getMessage() );
     }

  }  // end of init method

  // process survey response
  protected void doPost( HttpServletRequest request,
     HttpServletResponse response )
        throws ServletException, IOException
  {
     // set up response to client
     response.setContentType( "text/html" );
     PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
     DecimalFormat twoDigits = new DecimalFormat( "0.00" );

     // start XHTML document
     out.println( "<?xml version = \"1.0\"?>" );

     out.println( "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD " +
        "XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org"; +
        "/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd\">" );

     out.println(
        "<html xmlns = \"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\";>" );

     // head section of document
out.println( "<head>" ); // read current survey response
     int value =
        Integer.parseInt( request.getParameter( "animal" ) );

     // attempt to process a vote and display current results
     try {

        // update total for current survey response
        updateVotes.setInt( 1, value );
        updateVotes.executeUpdate();

        // get total of all survey responses
        ResultSet totalRS = totalVotes.executeQuery();
        totalRS.next();
        int total = totalRS.getInt( 1 );

        // get results
        ResultSet resultsRS = results.executeQuery();
        out.println( "<title>Thank you!</title>" );
out.println( "</head>" ); out.println( "<body>" ); out.println( "<p>Thank you for participating." );
        out.println( "<br />Results:</p><pre>" );
// process results
        int votes;
while ( resultsRS.next() ) {
           out.print( resultsRS.getString( 1 ) );
           out.print( ": " );
           votes = resultsRS.getInt( 2 );
           out.print( twoDigits.format(
              ( double ) votes / total * 100 ) );
           out.print( "%  responses: " );
           out.println( votes );
        }

        resultsRS.close();
out.print( "Total responses: " );
        out.print( total );
// end XHTML document out.println( "</pre></body></html>" ); out.close();
     }

     // if database exception occurs, return error page
     catch ( SQLException sqlException ) {
        sqlException.printStackTrace();
        out.println( "<title>Error</title>" );
out.println( "</head>" ); out.println( "<body><p>Database error occurred. " );
        out.println( "Try again later.</p></body></html>" );
        out.close();
     }

  }  // end of doPost method

  // close SQL statements and database when servlet terminates
  public void destroy()
  {
     // attempt to close statements and database connection
     try {
        updateVotes.close();
        totalVotes.close();
        results.close();
        connection.close();
     }

     // handle database exceptions by returning error to client
     catch( SQLException sqlException ) {
        sqlException.printStackTrace();
     }
  }  // end of destroy method
}

the html file :

<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>

<!--  Survey.html -->

<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>
  <title>Survey</title>
</head>

<body>
<form method = "post" action = "/animalsurvey">

  <p>What is your favorite pet?</p>

  <p>
     <input type = "radio" name = "animal"
        value = "1" />Dog<br />
     <input type = "radio" name = "animal"
        value = "2" />Cat<br />
     <input type = "radio" name = "animal"
        value = "3" />Bird<br />
     <input type = "radio" name = "animal"
        value = "4" />Snake<br />
     <input type = "radio" name = "animal"
        value = "5" checked = "checked" />None
  </p>

  <p><input type = "submit" value = "Submit" /></p>

</form>
</body>
</html>






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