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Hi guys,
I have a JSP with a form in it, the action page does not do much so I was wondering, is it possible to make the action page the calling page? If yes then how?
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is it possible to make the action page the calling page?

Could you be more explicit about what you mean by "action" and "calling" pages?
(If you just want the page to submit to itself using the same URL, I think that leaving off the action attribute of the form tag may accomplish that, but that might be a better question for the HTML forum).
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So you want a something like:

page.jsp

Well, PHP users do this a lot because PHP is like using JSP without actual Servlets. This is not a good idea, but can be done. You will need a lot of logic and scriplets in your JSP page to detmerine when to do what with any data you may or may not have. A better approach would be the following:
I have a form called employeelookup.jsp. It begins with a text field for the employee ID. When I click the Lookup button I call a Servlet that gets the employee info from a DB and fills an EmployeeBean with some initial data. I then forward back to employeelookup.jsp.
I have another form on that same page that is encoumpassed with jstl's c:test= where I test for the presence of that EmployeeBean. If it exists, I display some info about the employee for verification and also provide a Continue button to move on to the Call Log form.
[ January 16, 2004: Message edited by: Gregg Bolinger ]

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thanks, but actually after snooping on google i got it:

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[ January 16, 2004: Message edited by: Alex Kravets ]
[ January 16, 2004: Message edited by: Alex Kravets ]

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