Originally posted by Stephen Huey:
wanted to populate the text fields on that external form, but I don't think that's possible, b/c in the source those fields' values are hardcoded
This seems familiar. If I can paraphrase your problem:
Your new JSP application wants to send data to a pre-existing
application that you cannot change and cannot see its source code.
One tricky solution is to make your new application
construct the HTTP code, containing your
new application's data, and send that (HTTP code) to the external application. Then similarly listen for its HTTP response.
That application will see and transmit exactly what it normally
does when a person interacts with its forms. But this is very tricky.
If your problem is actually that you CAN make a few changes to the old application in order to make your new application communicate with it better, here's another approach.
What ever data you need to get from the old form, put it into the session
object. Your new application should forward to the old app form so that
they then share the same session object. As a result, your new app can
get and set values in the session object that the old will also see.
- just a humble suggestion.
Juan Rolando Prieur-Reza, M.S., LSSBB, SCEA, SCBCD, SCWCD, SCJP/1.6, IBM OOAD, SCSA