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Get a row information of a table by click "BUY" button which exist at end of each row using servlet and javascript

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i have a Servlet , this servlet contain the table of books(isbn , title , userid , quantity) , and at the end of each row in this table i but a buton tell the user to BUY this book , the problem is i want when the user press the button "BUY" for specific book , i want to save the values of each filed in this row in ahidden html text boxs.(isbn , title , userid , quantity) , beacuse i want to save this row in the orders table . this my job >>> this is my incomplete servlet , i want when the user press "BUY" button for specific book , get the information of this book in a hidden html text boxs.

/*
* ShowBooks.java
*
* Created on October 30, 2006, 12:09 PM
*/

package p2;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.sql.ResultSetMetaData;

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;

/**
*
* @author amohammad
* @version
*/
public class ShowBooks extends HttpServlet {

/** Processes requests for both HTTP <code>GET</code> and <code>POST</code> methods.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
*/
protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

out.write("<script language=\"JavaScript\">\n");
out.write(" function getIsbn() { \n" +
// " document.getElementById('isbn').value = Pisbn \n" +

// " document.forms(0).submit();\n" +
" \n" +
" }");
out.write("</script>\n");

out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet ShowBooks</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.print(" <input type='hidden' name='isbn'/> ");
out.print(" <input type='hidden' name='title'/> ");
out.print(" <input type='hidden' name='userid'/> ");
out.print(" <input type='hidden' name='quantity'/> ");
out.println("<form name=\"fm\" action=\"ShowBooks\" method=\"Post\">\n" +
" <table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"2\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\n" +
" <tr>\n" );

out.println(" <input type=\"submit\" name=\"srch\" size=\"60\" value=\"Search Book\"/>");
out.println("<TABLE BORDER=1>");

try {

Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");

Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:books","","");
Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
ResultSet results = statement.executeQuery("select * from books ;");

//out.println("<TABLE BORDER=1>");
ResultSetMetaData resultsMetaData =
results.getMetaData();
int columnCount = resultsMetaData.getColumnCount();

out.println("<TR>");
for(int i=1; i<columnCount+1; i++) {
out.println("<TH>" +
resultsMetaData.getColumnName(i) ) ;
}

while( results.next() ) {

out.println("<TR>");

for(int i=1; i<columnCount+1; i++) {

out.print("<TD>" + results.getString(i));

}

int o = 3 ;
out.print("<TD> <input type=\"button\" name=\"buy \" onclick=\"getIsbn()\" size=\"60\" value=\" BUY\" /> </TD>");

}

statement.close();
results.close();
connection.close();
}

catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);

}

out.println("</TABLE>");
out.println("</form>");
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");

out.close();
}

// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="HttpServlet methods. Click on the + sign on the left to edit the code.">
/** Handles the HTTP <code>GET</code> method.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
*/
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {

response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet ShowBooks</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<form name=\"fm\" action=\"ShowBooks\" method=\"Post\">\n" +
" <table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"2\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\n" +
" <tr>\n" );

out.println(" <input type=\"submit\" name=\"srch\" size=\"60\" value=\"Search Book\"/>");
out.println("</form>");
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");

}

/** Handles the HTTP <code>POST</code> method.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
*/
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {

processRequest(request, response);

//out.println("</table");

}

/** Returns a short description of the servlet.
*/
public String getServletInfo() {
return "Short description";
}
// </editor-fold>
}

this servlet contain a button when you press this button a list of the books appear with "BUY" button next each row

please please help me

thank you

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Get a row information of a table by click &quot;BUY&quot; button which exist at end of each row using servlet and javascript

Get a row information of a table by click "BUY" button which exist at end of each row using servlet and javascript