<!--
just a typical html form
This is the "theform.jsp" page
-->
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>enter form data</title></head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="formSaver.jsp">
Username: <input type="text" name="username" /><br />
Cool Factor: <input type="text" name="coolfactor" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
<!--
this page grabs the form data and
and (with the help of the UserFormBean class)
places the items as session data.
-->
<!-- the useBean taq is where this jsp page loops in the real classes -->
<jsp:useBean id="userform" class="userform.UserFormBean" scope="session"/>
<!-- the setProperty tag sends * (all) the property data to userform -->
<jsp:setProperty name="userform" property="*"/>
<html>
<head><title>Form Saver</title></head>
<body>
<p>Your data has been placed in a session!</p>
<p>Try visiting this <a href="unrelatedPage.jsp">unrelated page!</a></p>
</body>
</html>
<!-- this is the unrelated page that will pull
and display the session data -->
<!-- this loops in the session data we'll utilize -->
<jsp:useBean id="userform" class="userform.UserFormBean" scope="session"/>
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>an unrelated page</title></head>
<body>
<%= userform.getUsername() %> | <%= userform.getCoolfactor() %>
</body>
</html>
package userform;
public class UserFormBean {
String username;
String coolfactor;
public void setUsername(String value) {
username = value;
}
public void setCoolfactor(String value) {
coolfactor = value;
}
public String getUsername() {
return username;
}
public String getCoolfactor() {
return coolfactor;
}
}
