If I understand you correctly, you want a message to display in the user interface that says something like, "Update completed successfully" after the update has ocurred. So you have your servlet that calls a method that updates the database and returns the success or failure of the update to the servlet (or that's what you want to happen). More info is really neccessary about the structure of your application to be able to provide you with a really thorough response. Are you using
JSP's or is your servlet writing HTML out to the client? Is the databse update code in the servlet itself?
--BW