Question

i have to send form data which have multiselect boxes to a servlet using jquery ajax function
for that i am using jquery serialize function

but i am getting this string mothertonguelist=English&mothertonguelist=French&mothertonguelist=Chinese

you can see that mothertonguelist is coming multiple times , how do i get these values
inside servlet.

also
what is the efficient way to save these multiple select box values in database so that it can be easy for me to populate these values back to the multiple select box .

also tell me some good way to populate the values inside the form from the servlet.

i don’t want to use xml and and i have never used Json…

Thanks……..

Answer 1

If anyone wants to get multiple box values in servlet then use this

String[] mothertonguelist = request .getParameterValues("mothertonguelist");