Multiple servlet actions from jsp forms

Question

Hi all ,
how can i do muliple actions from a jsp form, i need to do an action when user clicks on a column and a different action when user clicks on cell in a row .
i need to read and store the attribute from the column to pass back to the webservice to request that the service sorts the reults by that column either as desecending or as asending.
also i need to get the value from a cell that is clicked on and pass that through as a parameter to the webservice to request some further data for the specific id.
how can i do this?
currently i have a form which has as part of the row an onclick event that captures the value of cell clicked - but what i need to do is change the cell value to a href and if this is clicked capture the value of the href and submitt this to the form action and regonise that the href has been clicked (how do i do that?) and thus do soemething specific for that in the servlet and if the column with its ascending or descending image is clicked capture the asc or desc value and regonise that the column asc or desc has been clicked (how do i do that?) and thus do soemething specific for that in the servlet.
<tr onclick="selectPatCareRec(this)">
<td><netui:label value="{container.item.perId}"/></td> rest of form is :-
you dont need to pay attention to rest of stuff except that which columnHeader field was clicked and in which order (ie ascending or desc)
also if a cell is clicked to pass the values as part of a submit to the action and regonise that a herf click was done and value of that cell - i have the javascript that is used to find the cell value once the row is clicked.
<netui:form action="refresh">
      <rpb:repeaterBlock name="contacts" filter="<%=filter%>"
      ascendingImage='<%=request.getContextPath()+"/resources/images/up-arrow.gif"%>'
      descendingImage='<%=request.getContextPath()+"/resources/images/down-arrow.gif"%>'>
      <netui-data:repeater dataSource="{pageFlow.carerGpListResults}">
     <netui-data:repeaterHeader>
       <table class="tablebody" border="0">
         <tr>
           <th><rpb:columnHeader field="SYSTEMREF"></rpb:columnHeader></th>
           <th><rpb:columnHeader field="TITLE"><i18n:getMessage messageName="title"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="GIVENNAME"><i18n:getMessage messageName="given_name"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="FAMILYNAME"><i18n:getMessage messageName="family_name"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="ADDRESS"><i18n:getMessage messageName="address"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="POSTCODE"><i18n:getMessage messageName="post_code"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="DOB"><i18n:getMessage messageName="dob"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="ORGANISATION"><i18n:getMessage messageName="organisation"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="TYPE"><i18n:getMessage messageName="type"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="QUESTION"><i18n:getMessage messageName="question"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="ANSWER"><i18n:getMessage messageName="answer"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
          <th><rpb:columnHeader field="PER_ID"><i18n:getMessage messageName="patientid"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>
         </tr>
       </netui-data:repeaterHeader>
       <netui-data:repeaterItem>
         <tr onclick="selectPatCareRec(this)">
           <!-- do an on click event to trigger another action to get all the patient list (ie. link it to the patientCasesList jsp) of cases and keep refresh to get sorting -->
          <td><netui:hidden dataInput="{container.item.SYSTEMREF}"dataSource="{actionForm.systemref}"/></td>
          <td><netui:label value="{container.item.TITLE}"/></td>
          <td><netui:label value="{container.item.GIVENNAME}"/></td>
          <td><netui:label value="{container.item.FAMILYNAME}"/></td> 
          <td><netui:label value="{container.item.ADDRESS}"/></td>
         <td><netui:label value="{container.item.POSTCODE}"/></td>
        <td><netui:label value="{container.item.DOB}"/></td>
        <td><netui:label value="{container.item.ORGANISATION}"/></td>
        <td><netui:label value="{container.item.TYPE}"/></td>
        <td><netui:label value="{container.item.QUESTION}"/></td>
       <td><netui:label value="{container.item.ANSWER}"/></td> 
          <td><netui:label value="{container.item.perId}"/></td> 
        </tr>
       </netui-data:repeaterItem>
       <netui-data:repeaterFooter></table></netui-data:repeaterFooter>
     </netui-data:repeater>
     <br />
     <rpb:firstPage label="First"/>
     <rpb:previousPage label="Previous"/>
     <rpb:nextPage label="Next"/>
     <rpb:pageNumber/>
      </rpb:repeaterBlock>
        <div>
        <netui:hidden tagId="selectedPatientId" dataSource="{actionForm.selectedPatientId}" dataInput="{actionForm.selectedPatientId}" />
        </div>
    </netui:form>thanks for any / all help.

Answer 1

You can modify your connection pool management servlet so you can set the 'connection pool object' as an attribute of the request. Then forward the request to your jsp page.
Example:
in your service method of your sevlet, add something like
public void service (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
ConnectionPool pool= new ConnectionPool();
request.setAttribute("mypool", pool);
// forward the request to a jsp page.
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("jsp/myjsp.jsp");
dispatcher.forward(request, response);
}then in your myjsp.jsp, you can access the connection pool object using the 'mypool' attribute.