Calling a Servlet From an HTML Form

In this section:

How to:

You can call a servlet by either:


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Syntax: How to Call a Servlet From an HTML Form

Specifying an Absolute Address:

<FORM ACTION="http://hostname/context_root/servlet/servlet_name"

where:

context_root

Is the configurable context root for the ReportCaster Web application in your Application Server configuration. By default, this is /ibi_apps.

hostname

Is the host name of the Web server.

servlet_name

Is the name of the servlet.

Specifying a Relative Address:

<FORM ACTION="/context_root/servlet/servlet_name"

where:

context_root

Is the configurable context root for the ReportCaster Web application in your Application Server configuration. By default, this is /ibi_apps.

servlet_name

Is the name of the servlet.


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Servlet Parameters

Reference:

The HTML calling forms prompt you for parameter values to generate the query string passed to a servlet.



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Reference: ReportCaster Servlet API Schedule Identification Parameters

The ReportCaster Servlet API provides two properties to identify a schedule:

You can identify a job to the ReportCaster API with either the IBIB_jobdesc or the IBIB_scheduleid parameter.


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