Question

OK, completely noob to JSP here. I need to find the code that handles a form submission, but I did a text search and can’t find it at all.

I have this in my web.xml

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/flow.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

The flow.htm is where the form is posting to. How do I locate the java code that handles the post?

Answer 1

In the same web.xml there must be a declaration of myservlet servlet similar to this:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.example.YourServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

com.example.YourServlet is the class you should investigate (of course in your code it will be a different class). If your form sends the data using POST, look at doService method in this class.