There are scenarios where you want to silently post a form to server or submit a form without a page refresh. Typical example is a Facebook page where you comment on a post. When you comment, the page is not refreshed but the comment is saved somewhere on the server which means that a save request is sent without entire page submit. This involves the use of ajax. As soon as we decide to use ajax, a question arises as to how we would send form data from jsp to server without page submit and there would be a big hassle involved in form dataRead More →

Suppose we have a jsp page which has a form whose data should be sent to the server. The form has fields which are directly related to the fields of an entity on the server. An entity is a simple java class which has some fields and their getter and setter methods. Let’s say the entity is a User (which means we have a User class on the server and each field of the jsp form is linked to a field of User class. When we say linked, it simply means that the name attribute of the form element is the same as the nameRead More →

Scenario Suppose we want to show a list of registered users of the application in a tabular format on a jsp. The list of users is created on the server and is bound to an attribute (in request, session or application scope) if you are using servlet or bound to an attribute in ModelAndView if you are using Spring controller as below.Read More →

A web application developed using Java EE would definitely be using JSPs and would indeed involve transferring values from one JSP to another. For Example, a user is presented with a form where he fills the required details and presses a Next button where all those details are pre-filled in a non-editable form for him to confirm. The user checks the details to be correct and submits the form for further processing. The above scenario is pretty common and involves taking data from one JSP to another. This post addresses the approaches to achieve that.Read More →