Communication between servlets with data

Question

I have a servlet that creates a HTML table (a report) with some data. The data used is a vector of some java objects. Now, I want to add a hyperlink to each row in the table and when clicked, open a new browser window and show the record info in detail. I know how to add a hyperlink and open a new window, but I do not know how to pass the data associated with that (user-clicked) row to a new browser window. The Java object for that row contains 20 items and I do not want to pass them in name-value pair to another servlet. Is there a smarter way to do this ? Can someone please help me?
This is a rough sketch of how I want to put a hyperlink in a row: The following method creates rows in my table:-
private void loadTableData(Vector data, PrintWriter out, int col)
        throws IOException {
        MyRecordObject myRec = null;
        if (data != null) {
            Object[] myArray = null;
            myArray = new Object[data.size()];
            for (int k = 0; k < data.size(); k++) {
                myArray[k] = data.get(k);
            Arrays.sort(myArray, new MySorterClass(col));
            for (int i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) {
                myRec = (MyRecordObject) myArray;
out.println("<TR bgcolor= \"E5E5E5\"> ");
// When the following hyper link
//is clicked, pass "myRec" object to some servlet/JSP
//and create a new HTML page with that data
out.println("<TD> <a href=\"myDetailInfoServlet_with_data\" target =\"_blank\"> " + myRec.getName() + " </a> </TD>"); // <==
out.println("<TD>" + myRec.getFathersName() + "</TD>");
out.println("<TD>" + myRec.getMothersName() + "</TD>");
out.println("<TD>" + myRec.getPetName() + "</TD>");
out.println("<TD>" + myRec.getSpouseName() + "</TD>");
out.println("</TR>");
out.println("</TBODY>");
out.println("</TABLE>");
out.println("</div>");
out.println("</html>");

Answer 1

My approach would be to just pass along an id with the hyperlink. Something you use to identify which record you want to display. This can be the recordId, or maybe the index of it in the data vector if that is still available and hasn't changed.
eg
out.println("...<a href=\"myDetailInfoServlet_with_data\?id= " + i + " ...
Also, I would recommend using JSPs for this sort of stuff.
For sure, retrieve your data in a servlet, but then just put it into request/session variables, and forward to a JSP to display.
using out.println for table code is a real pain in the butt.
Cheers,
evnafets