Best way to design a dynamic jsp form

[YuenLian Wu]

Dear all,

I am current designing a jsp form that will allow user to view some business functions such as cash balance, stock balance, as so on. Each of them has a table to render them. I want to make things User-friendly, which means the table will display information only if the user click on the "expand" icon next to the table title. The expand icon will then "shift" to "collapse" icon and all the details will be shown from the table. The user can collapse the table by clicking on the collapse icon again. The icon will trigger the form action and request the server to return the status

  
 
jsp code:
 
src="../images/...request.getAttribute("clickStatus").gif" 
 
function getCustomerQuotaDetails() {
 
document.CustAccSearch.action_type.value="ListPend";
document.CustAccSearch.accNo.value = 
...
if (accInfoModel!=null){
out.print(accInfoModel.getAcNo());
}
   ...;

document.CustAccSearch.QuotaDetails.value=...=request.getAttribute("clickStatus")...;
 
document.CustAccSearch.submit();
}
 
 
 
servlet code:
        if ( request.getParameter("QuotaDetails").equalsIgnoreCase("expand") ) {
        accSearchModel.setAnyDetails(true);
        request.setAttribute("clickStatus", "collapse");
        }
        else {
accSearchModel.setAnyDetails(false);
request.setAttribute("clickStatus", "expand");
        }
 

However, I want to know if it's a good design or not ? Is it better if I use javascript instead of java ?

Morever, I want to learn more sophisticated Jsp Layout design so that the user will be very happy, any cooL links?

Thanks very much

Transistor

[ July 14, 2006: Message edited by: YuenLian Wu ]
[ July 14, 2006: Message edited by: YuenLian Wu ]

[Bear Bibeault]

I do this sort of thing a lot and I feel that it is much better and easier to do with Javascript on the client rather than relying upon a server round-trip just to expand or collapse a portion of the page.

[aman hindustani]

hi....

there one possible solution for this...as we can use the help of java script..

using java script ...try to open another window(pop up window.) using the command...winow.open()....write a fucntion to this...and the opening..window ...you try to display all the records what you want to display...and finally give a button...to close..window.close()...by doing so..you are able to give a option to user...if he want to see the data ..he has to just click ..or else he would't.. ok ..all the best...

[Bear Bibeault]

I do not believe that the OP wanted to open new windows. It's very easy to expand and collapse DIVs within the current window using Javascript and CSS and is a lot simpler than spreading the logic over multiple pages.