JSP/Servlet Feedback form confusion

Question

Hi,
I hope someone can advise me. I have a jsp which collects feedback information from a form. I then want to call a java servlet to read this information, store it in a bean and send an email. At the moment when I click submit in the jsp form, the servlet isnt even being called.....Is it totally necessary for this kind of scenario that my servlet contain doget and dopost methods?
Many thanks.(code below)
//feedback jsp
<form action=sendfeedbackemailcontrolservlet>
          <br><br>
           <div align="centre"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000066">
         <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From:</font></font><font color="#000066"> 
              <input type="text" name="fromemail" size="40">
               <p align="left">  </p>
          Subject:
             </font> <font color="#000066">  
               <input type="text" name="subject" size="40">
               <br><br><br>
              <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Comments/Suggestions:
               </font><br><br>
               <textarea rows=6 cols=34 name="suggestions" ></textarea>
               </font> </div>
                  <p align="left">  </p>
              <div align="centre">
                <input type="button" value="Submit Feedback" name="button">
             <input type="reset" value="Clear all" name="reset">
             </div>
     </form>
//feedback servlet
public class SendFeedbackEmailControlServlet extends HttpServlet {
  private static final String CONTENT_TYPE = "text/html";
  //Initialize global variables
  public void init() throws ServletException {
  public static void send(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, String smtpHost, int smtpPort,String from, String to,String subject, String content)throws AddressException, MessagingException {
             // Create a mail session
             java.util.Properties props = new java.util.Properties();
             props.put("mail.smtp.host", smtpHost);
             props.put("mail.smtp.port", ""+smtpPort);
             Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
             // Construct the message
             Message msg = new MimeMessage(session);
             msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
             msg.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(to));
             msg.setSubject(subject);
             msg.setText(content);
             // Send the message
             Transport.send(msg);
             RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher("another.jsp");
            try {
              rd.forward(request, response);
            catch (IOException ex) {
            catch (ServletException ex) {
public static void main(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException, Exception {
    String fromemail = request.getParameter("fromemail");
    String subject = request.getParameter("subject");
    String suggestions = request.getParameter("suggestions");
    FeedbackBean bean = new FeedbackBean();
    bean.setSubject(subject);
    bean.setFromEmail(fromemail);
    bean.setSuggestions(suggestions);
    send(request, response, "smtp.host", smtp.port,bean.getFromEmail(), "[email protected]", bean.getSubject(), bean.getSuggestions());
  //Clean up resources
  public void destroy() {
}

Answer 1

Is it totally necessary for this kind of scenario that my servlet contain
doget and dopost methods?Yes.
Those are the methods that the server will call to invoke your servlet.
Also your methods should not be static. It needs to create an instance of the servlet to invoke it.
You could easily implement your doGet/doPost methods by just calling main(request, response) from them.