Capture href onclick and log the file name to the database table

Question

I need somehelp with JSP, JavaScript and Java. When a link to a .wav file is clicked, it need to play the file by calling playSound(); function of Windows Media Player, and then capture the name of the file and call a java function to send the information to mySQL database where it will be logged in the file name will be recorded in a table. I am having rough time for being able to call the java function from the jsp function. I am aware that the jsp variable, in this case the file name that was clicked, can not be called in Java but I do not know any other way to do it.
Please Help....
I have made a few changes to the code now. Here is my latest code. I still need some help with onClick event. It does not work as intended.
          <a href="WaMu_Recording/<%out.println(strFileName);%>
               onclick="<%
                         mymes.logFilePlayed(strUser, strPassword2, strFileName);
                    %>;
                         playsound('<%out.print(strFileName);%>');">
                    <%
                         out.print(strFileName);
                    %>
          </a>
The program appears to be executing the first part of the onClick, mymes.logfilePlayed(strUser, strPassword2, strFileName) as soon as the page is loaded because I can see the all of the records added to the database even before any of the href is clicked.
onclick should execute calling of the functions logFilePlayed and playsound when the click event occurs.
Edited by: uncleshah on May 21, 2008 5:26 AM

Answer 1

Here is how it was solved:
1) A hidden text box was created for each of the href using the following html script:
     <input type='hidden' name='<%out.print(fileViewed);%>' style="display:" value="" id='<%out.print(intNumber);%>' />
the name was like an array. So the fields were named: fileViewed1, fileView2, fileView3.... and so on.
2) Here is the onClick event for the href field:
onclick="playFile(
          '<%out.print(intNumber);%>',
          '<%out.print(strFileName);%>',
          '<%out.print(fileViewed);%>'
3) Here is the playFile function:
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
     function playFile(fileNumber, strFileName, fileViewed)
          var desc =document.DisplayFiles.elements[fileViewed];
          desc.value = strFileName;
          playsound('strFileName');
</SCRIPT>
Note that fileNumber param is not used.
4) Upon submit of this form. A new page was opened and here is the code for the new form.
boolean moreFiles = true;
String fileName;
String somethingBack = "";
myMessage mm = new myMessage();
int i = 1;
String strPara ="fileViewed" + i;
while(moreFiles)
     fileName = request.getParameter(strPara);
     if (fileName != null) {
          if (!(fileName).equals(""))
// this function on the server side create a record for each file played.
               somethingBack = mm.logFilePlayed(userSess, password, fileName);
               ++i;
               strPara = "fileViewed" + i;
     } else {
          moreFiles = false;
          mm = null;
     } //if else
} //while          
This is about 10 days of work in a very short note. I hope that someone will benefit from this work.