Question

I have a form that I could put on to one page, but for aesthetic reasons, I want to split into two. The original form, on submission, would go to a Servlet which would get the form data and insert it into a database. However, I don’t know how to make this work when it is split into two different forms on two different pages. My forms are currently in html but I could change them to JSP if that is the solution. I do not want to use hidden fields; if there is no way to do it without hidden fields, then I will just put it on one page as my form has quite a few fields and hidden fields would mean basically doubling the amount of code. I also only want to use html or jsp for the forms; I don’t want to use JavaBeans, and I want to avoid scripting in the jsp’s. I have already done this by simply dividing the database logic into two and using the ID of the last inserted object as a hidden field, and the second form then uses that ID to update that item, but this is not an elegant solution and could cause a problem if one user submitted the first form and a different user submitted the second (the wrong item would be updated). Is this possible?

Answer 1

Well, this is one of the things the Session can be used for: store the data from the first page in the HttpSession and then in the second page retrieve the session data and save it to the database.