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Browse All TopicsI have an html form and I want to enter the values from the HTML form into a databse using jsp.. How do I do this. make the html a jsp page and do it there. or create a separate jsp page to get the attributes and insert the values?
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by: pantalones_du_jourPosted on 2009-10-29 at 13:13:08ID: 25697763
I would create a separate JSP page to POST the form data to, have that JSP do the validation / cleanup on the POST data, insert it into the database and return the user to a confirmation page or the same form with a confirmation if the use case required.