Re: Making Java Act Like A Form

Good Evening!

I am trying to create a "wrapper" for a search page. The search page
that I have supports searching by zip codes, but not proximity. What
I would like to do is create a front end for the search and then pass
a list of zip codes to the search program.

The problem that I am having is moving the person doing the search to
the results that come back from the search. I just present the client
with a blank page not the results page. My "vision" is that my user
would provide me a zip code, I will create a list of zip codes withing
x mines of that zip code and then pass it to the search program.

When you have a form you go to the action="" page when you click on
submit. What happens to me is that when I send the POST to the server
I stay on the page. I need it to move to the page that I am doing the
post to.

I have created a very simple page to test what is going on. Here is
the code:
<%@ page language="java" import="org.apache.commons.httpclient.*,
org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*" %>

<%
   String url = "http://localhost:8080/printer.jsp";
   try {
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    PostMethod method = new PostMethod( url );

         // Configure the form parameters
         method.addParameter( "p", "Java" );

         // Execute the POST method
    int statusCode = client.executeMethod( method );
    if( statusCode != -1 ) {
      String contents = method.getResponseBodyAsString();
      method.releaseConnection();
      System.out.println( contents );
    }
   }

   catch( Exception e ) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    out.println(e.toString());
   }

%>

When I run this I get a 100% blank page. I want to go to the page
that the post is being done to.

Any help is appericated and thanks in advance for help!
Doug