Question

Though it may sound a bit silly,still I’m asking this conceptual and logical(as far as foe me :)) question :

In a jsp page Can I send it’s form data to more than one Servlet.. like :

form action="home","car" method="post" name="f1" or

form name='form' method='POST' action='car','home'

Any inputs…..//

Answer 1

On the client side, you can do submit the form to two different servlets through javascript, by specifying two different target windows to hold the response.

HTML:

<IFRAME id="firstResult" name="firstResult"></IFRAME>
<IFRAME id="secondResult" name="secondResult"></IFRAME>

Javascript:

function submitForm() {
    var form = document.getElementById("myForm");

    form.action = "/first-servlet";
    // Target is the name of the iframe to hold the response from first servlet.
    form.target = "firstResult"; 
    form.submit();


    form.action = "/second-servlet";
    // Target is the name of the iframe to hold the response from second servlet.
    form.target = "secondResult"; 
    form.submit();
}

Then you should have handlers to capture the IFRAME’s onload event to process the responses from the servlet.