Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages™

3.3. Example: Reading Three Explicit Parameters

Listing 3.1 presents a simple servlet called ThreeParams that reads form data parameters named param1, param2, and param3 and places their values in a bulleted list. Listing 3.2 shows an HTML form that collects user input and sends it to this servlet. By use of an ACTION of /servlet/coreservlets.ThreeParams, the form can be installed anywhere on the system running the servlet; there need not be any particular association between the directory containing the form and the servlet installation directory. Recall that the specific locations for installing HTML files vary from server to server. With the JSWDK 1.0.1 and Tomcat 3.0, HTML pages are placed somewhere in install_dir/webpages and are accessed ...