HTML form submission

[Vinod Awar]

Hii java gurus,

Iam dislaying a html file in JEditorPane using HTMLEditorkit.It works fine.
If i submit a html form,how will my program know about the form parameters that will be submitted?
What action listeners do i need to implement ? After searching much i have found HTMLDocument.HTMLReader.FormAction in javax.swing.text.html package.
but it is very confusing. can anybody please explain me in simple steps ?



Thanks

[Vinod Awar]

any thoughts on this?

[Ulf Dittmer]

If you submit a form, then a URL is involved (to which the form is submitted). That's where you need to install a servlet or some other kind of active server code that collects the parameters.

The Swing client just displays the HTML pages - it is a browser, not a web server.

[Vinod Awar]

does it trigger HyperLinkEvent ? how can i access the values submitted?
i want to submit the form back to my program not to any other server.

Thanks
[ May 22, 2007: Message edited by: vinod awar ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

A link is not a form submit, and a browser is not a server.

If you want to run a web server as part of a desktop app, then you can easily use Tomcat to do that; this article explains how.

[Vinod Awar]

Thanks Ulf, i found solution.Now i can access the submitted values. on clicking the submit button it triggers FormSubmitEvent.FormSubmitEvent is a subclass of HyperlinkEvent. Using FormSubmitEvent's getData() method one can access the form parameters. here is my code

  
  kit = new HTMLEditorKit();  
kit.setAutoFormSubmission(false);
pane = new JEditorPane();     
pane.setEditorKit(kit);  
//loadWithSetPage();
pane.addHyperlinkListener(new HyperlinkListener() 
{
public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent evt)
{
if(evt instanceof FormSubmitEvent)
{
FormSubmitEvent e=(FormSubmitEvent)evt;
System.out.println(e.getData());
}
}
});
loadWithReader();
  
 

[ May 22, 2007: Message edited by: vinod awar ]
[ May 22, 2007: Message edited by: vinod awar ]