File Dialog Box?? please help!

Question

button1 is to generate a text file to extract the data. however, i want it to prompt me a file dialog box to allow me to choose the location i want to save it. i tried " javascript:document.execCommand('SaveAs','true','test.txt'); " but it only saves the html format. any idea how could i save the extracted data? kindly advise!!
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
               <%
               java.text.DateFormat ais = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy hh.mm.ss");
               String formattedNowTime = ais.format(now);          
               int count = 1;
               %>
               function button1()
               <%
                    ResultSet rs3 = stmt3.executeQuery("SELECT W.Grp, W.Adm_No,SSN.Repeat_Cnt, S.Name, [Absent%], WarnNo, Issue_Date, Issue_By, FromDate, ToDate, S.TutGrp, T.TutorName FROM Warning_Letters W, Students S, Student_Study_Modules SSN, Tutors AS T "+
                               "WHERE SSN.Adm_No=S.Adm_No AND SSN.Module_Code=W.Module_Code AND S.Adm_No=W.Adm_No  AND W.Module_Code='"+moduleRQ+"' AND S.TutGrp=T.TutGrp  AND W.Issue_Date between #"+date1+"# AND #"+date2+"# ORDER BY Grp, S.Name, W.WarnNo");
                    //count++;
                    String path = ("C:\\\\temp\\\\" +moduleRQ+ " ("+modAbbr+") " +formattedNowTime+ ".txt");
                    File strFile = new File(path);
                    Writer objWriter = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(strFile));
                    objWriter.write(moduleRQ+ " / " +descRQ+ "("+modAbbr+")");
                    objWriter.write("          " +formattedNowTime);
                    objWriter.write("\r\n"+"Name"+"\r\t"+"\r\t"+"AdmNo"+"\r\t"+"W.No"+"\r\t"+"Issue"+"\r\t"+"By"+"\r\t"+"From"+"\r\t"+"To"+"\r\t"+"PEM");
                    while(rs3.next()){                    
                    String issuedname = rs3.getString("Name");
                    String admnumber = rs3.getString("Adm_No");
                    String warnNumber = rs3.getString("WarnNo");
                    String IssueBy = rs3.getString("Issue_By");
                    String IssueDate = rs3.getString("Issue_Date");
                    String fromDate=rs3.getString("FromDate");
                    String toDate=rs3.getString("ToDate");
                    String tName=rs3.getString("TutorName");
                    String[] monthArray={"Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"};
                    /*Converting Dates to "dd/mm/yyyy" format*/
                    String day      = IssueDate.substring(8,10);
                    String month      = IssueDate.substring(5,7);
                    IssueDate= day+" "+monthArray[Integer.parseInt(month)-1];
                    day      = fromDate.substring(8,10);
                    month      = fromDate.substring(5,7);
                    fromDate= day+" "+monthArray[Integer.parseInt(month)-1];
                    day      = toDate.substring(8,10);
                    month      = toDate.substring(5,7);
                         toDate= day+" "+monthArray[Integer.parseInt(month)-1];                          
                    objWriter.write("\r\n"+issuedname+"\r\t"+admnumber+"\r\t"+warnNumber+"\r\t"+IssueBy+"\r\t"+IssueDate+"\r\t"+fromDate+"\r\t"+toDate+"\r\t"+tName);                    
                    objWriter.flush();
                    objWriter.close();
               %>
          </SCRIPT>

Answer 1

Do not use JSP for that. Use a servlet. You can find here an example: http://balusc.blogspot.com/2007/07/fileservlet.html