how to save data from vanishing during page navigation?

[jacob deiter]

I have a JSP(A),enter some data in the page A and navigate to another page B(JSP),here I enter some data and again navigate to page A. Now ,I want Page A to have the previously entered data and I take the from data from page B and put into page A

As per my understanding If navigate to page B then data in page A destroyed, as well if I come to page A from Page B then Data entered in page B also destroyed.

How I save my data from vanishing?.

Please suggest good idea .

[Bear Bibeault]

Use the value attributes on the form elements to pre-populate the data.

[meehul Chopra]

jacob deiter wrote:I have a JSP(A),enter some data in the page A and navigate to another page B(JSP),here I enter some data and again navigate to page A. Now ,I want Page A to have the previously entered data and I take the from data from page B and put into page A

As per my understanding If navigate to page B then data in page A destroyed, as well if I come to page A from Page B then Data entered in page B also destroyed.

How I save my data from vanishing?.

Please suggest good idea .

hi jacob,

Can you elaborate more on the word navigating....
do you mean a <jsp:forward..> or a simple hyperlink

[jacob deiter]

I meant jsp forward.But I can't get the difference between both.When clicked on hyperlink then a new URL is sent to server???.I hope JSP forward also do the same!!!

[meehul Chopra]

jacob deiter wrote:I meant jsp forward.But I can't get the difference between both.When clicked on hyperlink then a new URL is sent to server???.I hope JSP forward also do the same!!!

hi jacob,

<jsp:forward..> works in the same way as a RequestDispatcher does,,that is all the forwarding happens at the server side.
So in your example you can always make use of attributes to save data for that request.

A hyperlink always generates a Get request.

[jacob deiter]

HI

Thanks for your reply.

do you mean a <jsp:forward..> or a simple hyperlink

Could you please explain the difference because I knew What it is but cant differentiate very clearly

[Bageshwar Pratap Narain]

Could you please explain the difference because I knew What it is but cant differentiate very clearly

A hyperlink, sends a new request to the web server, but with a jsp:forward, the request is internally forwarded by the container. All the request parameters, and attributes remain intact during this process and ,and the page to which the jsp:forward is pointing can use these values.

With a plain hyperlink, only the session attributes, and form data is accessible, to the host jsp/servlet