Using a form to submit data to database

Question

I have a servlet and I am trying to implement a form in the page so that it will submit from a text box a string into the database. Here is my code.
java.util.Date d = new java.util.Date();
          java.sql.Timestamp t = new java.sql.Timestamp(d.getTime());
          String data = "";
          out.println("<form method=get>");
          out.println("Enter Data: ");
          out.println("<input type=text name='data' >");
          out.println("<input type=submit value=Submit>");
          out.println("</form>");
          // Insert Data
          PreparedStatement pst = con.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO FOO (NAME,DATE_MODIFIED) VALUES(?,?)");
          pst.setString(1, data);
          pst.setTimestamp(2, t);
          pst.executeUpdate();
I believe this is incorrect in the <form> code. I do not know how to INSERT the data that is submitted from the <form>.

Answer 1

You need to separate the servlet code from the HTML code.
First you create an HTML page with the HTML form:
<form method="get" ACTION="myservletname">
Enter Data:
<input type=text name='data' >
<input type=submit value=Submit>
</form>
Then you create the servlet which will read the request object with the parameter called "data".
And then you input that value into a database.
Visit the servlet tutorials in the Sun site.
-AJD