Passing parameter from Servlet to javascript in JSP. Very Urgent - 5 jukes!

Question

Well my servlet will retrieve questions from database.
Then the player will answer the question in the JSP and submit the answer to the servlet to process.
Each time an answer is submitted, or a "Next Question" button is clicked, the countdown time will restart.
And will reload the page with a new question.
So how can i do that?
This is my servlet, JSP, javascript
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* Interacts with the player depending on his types of selection and output them
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class GameQuestionServlet extends HttpServlet
     String sSQL = null;
     String sCategory = null;
     String paramName = null;
     User userObject = null;
     Questions gameQsObj = new Questions();
     HttpSession session;
     int cnt = -1;
     int score = 0;
     boolean connected = false;
     public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
          session = request.getSession(false);
          //System.out.println("Testing Score:" + score);
          if(connected == true)
               Questions object = (Questions)gameQsObj.getQsList().elementAt(cnt);
               System.out.println("\n" + object.sAns1);
               System.out.println(object.sAns2);
               System.out.println(object.sAns3 + "\n");
               Enumeration enum = request.getParameterNames();
               while(enum.hasMoreElements())
                    paramName = (String)enum.nextElement();
                    if(paramName.equals("mcq"))
                         System.out.println(request.getParameter("mcq"));
                         score = Integer.parseInt(userObject.score.trim());
                         System.out.println("Player old score: " + score);
                         //Check to see if the selected answer matches the correct answer
                         if((object.sCorrect).equals(request.getParameter("mcq")))
                              score = score + 10;
                         else
                              if((object.sCorrect).equals(request.getParameter("mcq")))
                                   score = score + 10;     
                              else
                                   if((object.sCorrect).equals(request.getParameter("mcq")))
                                        score = score + 10;     
                                   else
                                        score = score - 10;     
          System.out.println("Player current score: " + score);
          else     //will only go into this once
               userObject = (User)session.getAttribute("user");
               System.out.println("\n"+userObject.nric);
               System.out.println(userObject.name);
               System.out.println(userObject.password);
               System.out.println(userObject.email);
               System.out.println(userObject.score+"\n");
               //depending on user selection
               sCategory = request.getParameter("qsCategory");
               sSQL = "SELECT * FROM " + sCategory;
               gameQsObj.getQuestions(sSQL, sCategory);
               score = Integer.parseInt(userObject.score);
               connected = true;
          System.out.println("Connected:" + connected);
          System.out.println("Before:" + userObject.score);
          cnt = cnt + 1; //increment to retrieve next question
          userObject.score = Integer.toString(score);     
          System.out.println("After:" + userObject.score);
          if(cnt < 3) //setting for the number of questions per game.
               //request.setAttribute("qsCnt", cnt); //count of the question number
               request.setAttribute("aQs", gameQsObj.getQsList().elementAt(cnt));
               System.out.println(request.getAttribute("aQs"));
               System.out.println("This is question number: "+ cnt);
               getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/JSP/PlayGame.jsp").forward(request, response);
          else
               //forward to the result page     
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
          doPost(request, response);
<%@ page import="Questions" %>
<HTML>
     <HEAD>
          <TITLE>Play Game</TITLE>
          <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
               var refreshinterval=10
               var displaycountdown="yes"
               var starttime
               var nowtime
               var reloadseconds=0
               var secondssinceloaded=0
               function starttime() {
                    starttime=new Date()
                    starttime=starttime.getTime()
                    countdown()
               function countdown() {
                    nowtime= new Date()
                    nowtime=nowtime.getTime()
                    secondssinceloaded=(nowtime-starttime)/1000
                    reloadseconds=Math.round(refreshinterval-secondssinceloaded)
                    if (refreshinterval>=secondssinceloaded) {
               var timer=setTimeout("countdown()",1000)
                         if (displaycountdown=="yes") {
                              window.status="You have "+reloadseconds+ " second before timeout"
               else {
                    hide();
               clearTimeout(timer)
                         //window.location.reload(true)
               function hide() {
                    //hidelayer
                    if(gameLayers.style.visibility == "visible"){
                         gameLayers.style.visibility = "hidden"
                         oops.style.visibility = "show"
               window.onload=starttime
          </SCRIPT>
     </HEAD>
     <BODY>
          <FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="http://localhost:8080/Java_Assignment2/servlet/GameQuestionServlet">
               <DIV ID="oops" STYLE="position:absolute; left:300px; top:30px; width:120px; height:150px; z-index:2; visibility:hidden">
                    Oops! 30 seconds time up!!! <BR><BR>
                    <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Next Question">
                    <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="nextQs" VALUE="Next Question">
               </DIV>
               <DIV ID="gameLayers" STYLE="position:absolute; left:300px; top:30px; width:120px; height:150px; z-index:3; visibility:show">
               <TABLE BORDER="0">
                    <TR>
                         <TH><BIG>Questions:</BIG></TH>
                    </TR>
<%
                    Questions aQsObj = (Questions)request.getAttribute("aQs");
                    String aQsBody = aQsObj.sQs;
                    String aQsAns1 = aQsObj.sAns1;
                    String aQsAns2 = aQsObj.sAns2;
                    String aQsAns3 = aQsObj.sAns3;
%>
                    <TR>
                         <TD><B><%= aQsBody%></B></TD>
                    </TR>
                    <TR>
                         <TD>
                              <SELECT SIZE="3" NAME="mcq">
                                   <OPTION SELECTED><%= aQsAns1 %></OPTION>
                                   <OPTION><%= aQsAns2 %></OPTION>
                                   <OPTION><%= aQsAns3 %></OPTION>
                              </SELECT><BR><BR>
                         </TD>
                    </TR>
                    <TR>
                         <TD>
                              <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit Your Answer">
                              <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="submitAns" VALUE="Submit Your Answer">
                         </TD>
                    </TR>
               </TABLE>
               </DIV>
          </FORM>
     </BODY>
</HTML>
This must be answered before 28th of september.
Please help. It is indeed very urgent.

Answer 1

this is just a skeleton code.. alot of stuff is not here..
<FORM name = "form1" action="../servlet/wateverSevlet>
<input type="text" name="searchStr" size="40">
<INPUT type="hidden" id=answer name=answer size=7>
<input type="button" name="button" value="Submit Answer" onClick="javascript:submitCheck(document.form1.searchStr.value);">
<input type="button" name="button" value="Skip Question" onClick="javascript:submitCheck('skip');">
</form>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function submitCheck(str)
  form1.answer.value = str
  form1.submit()
</script>i assuming you are submitting it to the same servlet regardless of whether the user clicks the skip question or the submit question button.