XMLHTTP OBJECT

I am sending information from the JSP to my Servet via xmlHTTP object ->
<script language="JScript">
var oHTTP = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
var oXML = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
oHTTP.open("POST","myServletHere",false);
oHTTP.send(oXML);
alert(oHTTP.responseText);
</SCRIPT>
But I don't know how to recieve the information in the servlet and how to send information back to the JSP
please help me
TODA SHALOM.

2. yes , I will be happy to recieve source to [email protected]
Ok i sent you the example.
The whole example is poorly written but you shold be able to see the
concept(I didnt sent you the code i was working with at that time, because its too complex and messy.).
3. how do I return data from the servlet back to the JSP??its all in the example
4. what the alternatives you know to xmlhttp ( making server request without refreshing the page)processing the xml on client side this way (using data retrieved by xmlhttp) caused me many problems, because it takes some time for example tolad data from xml http to html xml element and javascript just wont wait for data to be loaded, this is the problem you will probably run into so i wont spend much time by explaining it to you, you will see for yourself
these days, if i need to process the http request without refreshing the page i use invisible iframe into which i target the request, i use the onLoad property of BODY element (in the document(response) loaded into mentioned iframe to trigger processing of response with javascript, so i can be sure taht data is beeing procesed only after its loaded completely)
but other(probably more experienced) developers say, that the whole concept of using frames/iframes is not good, because it demands more code => source of bugs and it is more complicated to make such pages compatible with other browsers
However i like using iframes (and sometimes im even in the mood for evil thinks like ms.xmlhttp) and one day i'll probably open the new thread in this forum on frame/iframe topic...
OK thats it, if you have any further problems/comments on my example just to ask.
Jano

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carunkumar wrote:
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Greetings
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Homepage : http://www.insum.ca
InSum Solutions' blog : http://insum-apex.blogspot.com

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Sylvain Michaud
Homepage : http://www.insum.ca
InSum Solutions' blog : http://insum-apex.blogspot.com
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http://www.bindows.net
http://dojotoolkit.com/
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Closing comment: One of the blog entries was very blunt
"OS itself has a wonderful array of panels, buttons, etc.
Once upon a time there were great tools like Delphi that
allowed developers to take advantage of the operating
system. With Delphi's ability to create single-file exe's
with all dll's being optional, it was quite possible to
build a fantastic thin client app that outperforms all of
this silly ajax stuff, and was MUCH MORE secure. The rush to
web apps seems so silly, when Windows has provided the
ability to do all of this great work for a long, long
time... "
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Scott: Appreciate your input, as always.
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Have you seen the Siebel e-Business CRM software? Siebel 7 runs entirely in a browser and its UI is amazing, just like a desktop application, very responsive and seamless. No Submit button anywhere in sight. No explicit Save, just step off the record to save. Drag and drop to reorder stuff, the list goes on and on.
Contrast that to a traditional thin-client application (be it HTML DB or .NET or ASP or PHP or whatever) and you will see why business users get confused as to why thin-client means so wildly different things.
And Siebel, like a few other vendors, has been doing this for 3+ years now, long before the media attached these fancy buzz words like AJAX and DHTML to it.
I mean, here we are swooning into ecstasy, going Oooh, Ahh over little things like Type-ahead, Autocomplete in text boxes, dynamic select lists when this stuff has been available to business users via (desktop) client-server applications since Windows 3.1 days! With the advent of the Internet era and thin-client browser based UIs, we sacrificed rich application functionality for ease of deployment and maintenability for us (IT folks)! Business users got a raw deal!
[Maybe now that Oracle is thinking about buying Siebel some of that technology will seep over into HTML DB!]
Again, I tend to be more conservative when
recommending that a project use a brand new
technology, but at the same time, see lots of newI fully appreciate the value of stability and security and as I said in my original post HTML DB's back-end infrastructure is rock-solid. Great show/accept processing, insanely fast, great security, just superb.
But this AJAX stuff is neither so bleeding edge nor so unstable as it is made out to be.
Rumour has it that Microsoft's Outlook Web Access team "invented" the XMLHTTP object back in 2001 and many many robust Javascript libraries have been built on top of it. Javascript has been around in browsers for almost a decade now. Yes, industry standards and browser support for CSS still continues to evolve but good toolkits handle this (and cross-browser compatibilty) quite well.
Again, none of this stuff is exactly "new", the underlying components (XMLHTTP, Javascript, CSS, plain old DOM scripting) has been around for years now.
Thanks

Regarding AJAX

while running a webapplication using AJAX I'm getting the following Exception;
java.lang.Throwable: [HTTP:101249][ServletContext(id=8142880,name=ajax-validation,context-path=/ajax-validation)]: Servlet class com.sun.j2ee.blueprints.bpcatalog.ajax.ValidationServlet for servlet ValidationServlet could not be loaded because the requested class was not found in the classpath D:\SF_finalbuild\WLSF_finalbuild\SFServerfinalbuild\.wlnotdelete\extract\SFServerfinalbuild_ajax-validation_ajax-validation\ajax-validation.war;D:\SF_finalbuild\WLSF_finalbuild\.\SFServerfinalbuild\.wlnotdelete\extract\SFServerfinalbuild_ajax-validation_ajax-validation\jarfiles\WEB-INF\lib\weblogic.jar;D:\SF_finalbuild\WLSF_finalbuild\.\SFServerfinalbuild\.wlnotdelete\extract\SFServerfinalbuild_ajax-validation_ajax-validation\jarfiles\_wl_cls_gen.jar;D:\SF_finalbuild\WLSF_finalbuild\.\SFServerfinalbuild\.wlnotdelete\extract\SFServerfinalbuild_ajax-validation_ajax-validation.
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/sun/j2ee/blueprints/bpcatalog/ajax/ValidationServlet (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0).
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(Lweblogic.servlet.internal.RequestCallback;)V(ServletStubImpl.java:834)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.getServlet(Lweblogic.servlet.internal.RequestCallback;)Ljavax.servlet.Servlet;(ServletStubImpl.java:535)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;Lweblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl;)V(ServletStubImpl.java:373)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(Ljavax.servlet.ServletRequest;Ljavax.servlet.ServletResponse;)V(ServletStubImpl.java:315)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run()Ljava.lang.Object;(WebAppServletContext.java:6718)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(Lweblogic.security.subject.AbstractSubject;Ljava.security.PrivilegedAction;)Ljava.lang.Object;(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(Lweblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject;Lweblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject;Ljava.security.PrivilegedAction;)Ljava.lang.Object;(SecurityManager.java:121)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(Lweblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl;Lweblogic.servlet.internal.ServletResponseImpl;)V(WebAppServletContext.java:3764)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(Lweblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread;)V(ServletRequestImpl.java:2644)
     at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(Lweblogic.kernel.ExecuteRequest;)V(ExecuteThread.java:219)
     at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run()V(ExecuteThread.java:178)
     at java.lang.Thread.startThreadFromVM(Ljava.lang.Thread;)V(Unknown Source)

hi benubach..... i hav done that also...
var asynObj = getXMLHTTPRequest();
asynObj.open("GET","/ProcessComp/AjaxChecklistDisplayServlet?&selected_process = " + selectedValue + "",true);
asynObj.onreadystatechange = Display_responseText;
asynObj.send(null);
this is my code for getting XMLHTTP object....Where getXMLHTTPRequest() function is like :
function getXMLHTTPRequest()
var temp = false;
try
temp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
catch(err1)
temp = false;
return temp;
Still no luck .... Any guess

Http POST question

I am new to this but, I am trying to post XML data to a http adapter using a XMLHTTP object (in either an ASP file or vbscript) and i keep getting a 'Start of root element expected'. Does anyone know of any examples so that I can see where i am going wrong.
many thanks

Thanks for the response it was actually the firewall that was causing the issue i disabled it and was able to communicate with phone's web server
Anyway i was able to send a POST to the phone's web server and also got a 200 OK response for it with an xml body as . But the XML object that
i added to the POST is not getting displayed on the phone. The following is the POST request i had sent to the ip phone
POST /CGI/Execute HTTP/1.1
Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80
Connection: Close
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:05:38 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Authorization: username="suresh"
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 204
Cache-control: private
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Menu
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/CiscoServices/airline/airlines.asp
Let me know if there is an issue with the POST request

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