Servlets 4a

[bill bozeman]

For this assignment, we need to have two servlets sharing data. The data that they share, does it need to be persistent so that when the server is restarted, I don't lose any of the videos that have been added? I know we haven't gotten to databases yet, so I guess what I am asking is do we need to use File I/O to store the videos.
Bill

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

The short answer is "no". As long as it persists in memory, that is sufficient.

[bill bozeman]

One more question on this assignment,
In the HTML form, your checkboxes have different names like this:

< input type=checkbox name=vhs value=yes >VHS
< input type=checkbox name=dvd value=yes >DVD

Shouldn't the checkbox names be the same and the vaules be different. That is the typical way to have checkboxes I believe. So I thought it should look like this:

< input type=checkbox name=format value=vhs >VHS
< input type=checkbox name=format value=dvd >DVD

Bill

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

In the video rental store they may carry VHS, DVD or VHS & DVD.
That is why the html is the way it is.