The best way is to wrap your information in an object, then add it to the
request object using the setAttribute() method. You can then retrieve the object
using the getAttribute() method.
-ernie
Robert Martin wrote:
> I am working on a servlet that generates an HTML table where each table row
> contains information about a row in the database along with a checkbox. The
> user selects the checkboxes next to the rows he is interested in performing
> additional processing on and then presses the submit button. This posts the
> information to the next servlet, which presents additional screens. I want
> to send several columns of data for each selected row, but the checkbox POST
> only allows for <name>=<value>. What is the best way to pass multiple
> pieces of information between servlets in this manner? Should I make the
> value a delimited string and have the next servlet tokenize it? Or is it
> better to send one column of data and then have the next servlet re-query
> the database for the other columns? Other better methods? Tnx.
>
> Robert S. Martin
> Software Engineer
> First Quadrant, L.P.
>
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