Problem with SubmitButton name across screens, which use the same action?

Question

I am using multiple submit buttons in a single JSP. The problem i am using the same action across 4 screens, and excpet the 1st screen the remaingin 3 screens have BACK & Continue button, in every page the click of back button should take back to the previous screen and continue should submit the options selected to the next screen;
The problem is i m using to LookupDispatchAction to handle multiple submit buttons, and i m using this for buttons
<html:submit property="method"><bean:message key="reg.bt.back"/></html:submit>
In resource bundle reg.bt.back=Back , but i need to pass to the previous screen so how to do that
Help needed............
Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

why can you not store the information you require in the session?
session.setAttribute("attributename" <attribute object>);
surely that would negate you needing to pass parameters though the http?
but otherwise there are several ways to do this, first of all you could simply rewrite the URL, which i'll admit is slightly labour intensive, but it would do the job... of if you really wanted you could put hidden html values throughout your page, and populate them with the data you wish you pass in your request, as long as the hidden inputs are in the <form> there should be no issue here.
N.B. you are right, i would never suggest using JS for ANYTHING to do with sessions and submitted/retrieving data when you are using a JSP.