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Display HTML page from a servlet

 
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Hi all,

I have written a simple servlet that I want to invoke from a web page. Basically, I want to be able to load my initial webpge, enter an email address and click submit. I want this page to pass the email address to my servlet, I want the servlet to return a list of customers associated with that email address and post them to a webpage.

Do any of you know of any tutorials I could follow to achieve this?

Most of the tutorials I have seen dynamically create the display HTML webpage, e.g.

out.print("<html><head>");

I don't want to do this. I want to creat my own webpage in my own style and have the serlvelt populate it with customer data, not dynamically create the page.

I have tried the following from my doGet() method but it doesn't work. The dispatcher is created but the html file doesn't load.





Any help is welcome,
David
 
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The request dispatcher is a good start. but the keyword here is JSP. Google for a tutorial you'll find plenty.
 
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http://download.oracle.com/javaee/5/tutorial/doc/bnagx.html

 
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Welcome to JavaRanch..
 
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Shanky Sohar wrote:Welcome to JavaRanch..



Many thanks..
 
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and one more thing with forward, you can forward your request to any resource like jsp,servlet,HTML




but remember Forward should be called before any request should be commited to the client.otherwise you will get illegalArgumentException..
 
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