If you're looking to enhance your form with AJAX functionality, consider utilizing jQuery. jQuery offers the convenient form plugin, which seamlessly transforms an ordinary form into an ajaxform.
Here's an example of how you can implement this in your HTML (in a JSP file):
<form id="myform" action="myservlet" method="post">
<input type="text" name="foo">
<input type="submit">
</form>
<div id="message">${message}</div>
To handle the AJAX functionality using JavaScript (either directly or indirectly within a JSP), you can use the following script:
$('#myform').ajaxForm({
success: function(message) { $('#message').text(message); }
});
In your Java servlet (within the doPost() method), you can retrieve data from the form and customize the response based on whether it's an Ajax request or a normal one:
String foo = request.getParameter("foo");
String message = "You entered 'bar': " + ("bar".equals(foo) ? "yes" : "no");
if ("XMLHttpRequest".equals(request.getHeader("x-requested-with"))) {
// Ajax request.
response.getWriter().write(message);
} else {
// Normal request.
request.setAttribute("message", message);
request.getRequestDispatcher("page.jsp").forward(request, response);
}
For more advanced functionality, you may want to consider using Gson in your servlet to convert Java objects to JSON format, allowing for easier access to the data in JavaScript.