pass parameters into servlet

[jaya sudha]

Hi..........

can i pass Parameters to servlets ? how can i read those ?

please can any one answer this...THANKS

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Jaya,
You can pass http parameters (from a form or url) or initialization parameters (from the web.xml.)

[siva krishnan]

Hi

Parameters can be passed in many ways..one of the most common usage is passing the value from a front-end FORM.
Each FORM element will have a NAME and a VALUE.
By specifying request.getParameter(<FORM-ELEMENT-NAME> you can get the value which was entered for that element.
eg: To get the employee number enetered in a textbox named "EmpNum" in the front-end FORM, you can use:
request.getParameter("EmpNum");
This will give the value entered for emp number.

[Gregg Bolinger]

Sounds to me like you could use a good old fasioned tutorial on Servlets and maybe JSP.

Sun's J2EE Tutorial is pretty good. Chapter 11 is on Java Servlets and Chapter 12 is on JSP.