The JavaDoc you linked has no connection to what I need whatsoever.
The line that I needed was:
I hope people could use this in the future.
Side-note: As a greenhorn, my opinion would not matter and would carry little impact, if any, on the community, and I will strive my best to help people who need it. However, your teaching techniques are completely foreign to me because of their time wasting nature. I could have spent those 5 past hours coding and fixing different errors instead of wasting that time on that single line of code. I understand your policy of "this is not a code mill", and I support it because it makes sense, but I didn't ask for a whole program.
The educational aspect is great, but I did not learn anything from any of your posts, except for the first link that you provided about the
JSP and Philip's introductions to different aspects, such as DOM and JQuery usage. That was well done. I had to phone my friend to ask about this matter because Google mostly gave me suggestions on how to get the value of the text box (more commonly used) and the HTTPServletRequest suggestion completely misguided me.
I find the best approach to teach a person is to provide him what he needs, not make him look for something that he is not familiar with, as long as it is in acceptable margins of course. Making people learn stuff they will not need is not the best practice.
But, that is just my first view of the forums. The community and of course you, Bear, did help me with the logic a lot, so for that, I give you the greatest of my gratitude.
Thank you.