Buttons in HTML Forms attached to servlets

Question

Hi,
This seems like it should be a simple thing to me, but I haven't done enough html (or maybe it's enough servlets) to know what to do here.
I have a section of my webpage that is entirely servlet-based. On one page (created by a servlet), I have a form. I'd like to put two buttons on the bottom of this form and be able to distinguish which one was pushed. The form sends to another servlet and I am getting other data out of the form in that servlet. (Text fields, which is text input type, that show up in the requestParameters). I tried the following:
out.println( "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Button1\" name=\"button1\">" );
out.println( "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Button2\" name=\"button2\">" );in the servlet that the form connects to, I tried the following:
String buttonOne = request.getParameter( "button1" );
String buttonTwo = request.getParamter( "button2" );
if(buttonOne != null)
     System.out.println( buttonOne );
if(buttonTwo != null)
     System.out.println( buttonTwo );
}But when I do this, nothing prints to the screen, so obviously it isn't right.
Anyways, if anyone could tell me a way I could tell which button was clicked, that's all I want!!!
Thanks for any help you might give!!

Answer 1

But when I do this, nothing prints to the screen, so obviously it isn't right.And don't expect System.out.println() in a servlet to print to any "screen". It certainly won't appear in the browser in response to your request; it should appear in one of your servlet container's log files. If it doesn't, then use the servlet log() method instead. Or just generate HTML containing your debugging output and send that back as the response.
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