Hi
Prerequisite for jsp is html and
java.
The standard way of handling forms in JSP is to define a "bean". You just need to define a class that has a field corresponding to each field in the form. The class fields must have "setters" that match the names of the form fields.
Once you have defined the class, compile it and make sure it is available in the web-server's classpath. The server may also define special folders where you can place bean classes.
Now you can just add the jsp:useBean tag and the jsp:setProperty tag. The useBean tag will look for an instance of the your class in the session. If the instance is already there, it will update the old instance. Otherwise, it will create a new instance of class(the instance of the class is called a bean), and put it in the session. The setProperty tag will automatically collect the input data, match names against the bean method names, and place the data in the bean!
Perhaps with this prior information, you can first get going with other topics like tags, directives, and session before getting to beans.
[ September 21, 2004: Message edited by: parul sahu ]