Processing HTML Forms by Servlets

• In the form tag on the HTML page, you can put the action field to be a JSP page.

• This is compiled to be a servlet and the request and response parameters can be explicitly used in a scriptlet on the page. request.getParameter (“username”);where username is the name of a field on the form.

• The request object implements javax.servlet.HttpServletRequest and has the following methods, among others:

  • getRequest
  • getParameterNames
  • getParameterValues
  • getParameter

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