Jeff, You still haven't given a rationale why you *need* the parameters presented in a specific order (even though the brower's supposed to produce that result). I've worked with a set of generic form processing servlets and never had the desperate need to know the order upon receipt; if I'm manually inspecting/debugging a submission, I'm doing a "SELECT...ORDER BY..." from a database anyway.
My suggestion, if you really, really, really need to know the "order of appearance" in the originating <form> (and you don't want to preface each input name with an indexing numeric value as suggested earlier): a.. write some (client-side) JScript to traverse the document's DOM (starting from the <form> node) just PRIOR TO SUBMISSION, b.. create a delimeted string of parameter names for each input node encountered c.. stuff that delimeted string value into a <input type="hidden" name="formInputOrder"> d.. form.submit(); On the TC/servlet side, a.. get the value of the "formInputOrder" parameter b.. pull all the names from the enumeration of param names provided by the request c.. sort that list based on a Comparator implementation that compares the relative positions of each comparee within the "formInputOrder" value (Note that it's always good to wrap both comparees with the delimeter used by the "formInputOrder" value.) This suggestion assumes a fairly distinct set of input names. If your form has multiple inputs with the same name (or a <select> that allows multiple options), then, obviously, the above has some weaknesses.
