How can I invoke a servlet from JavaScript?
Created May 4, 2012
Nicola Ken Barozzi Yes, and it is quite easy. You just have to remember that a servlet is seen by the browser like a normal web page with its URL.
Just call it lke you would call a web page.
It is also possible to use servlet data in javascript without changing page.
For example I am using Microsoft XML data islands that get XML data from a servlet.
CODE:
CODE:
<HTML>
<SCRIPT>
function display()
{
data.transformNodeToObject(ss.XMLDocument, resultTree.XMLDocument);
document.write(resultTree.xml);
}
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT FOR="window" EVENT="onload">
data.async = false;
data.load("../servlet/SQLResult");
ss.async = false;
ss.load("MyStyleSheet.xsl");
display();
</SCRIPT>
<XML id="data"></XML>
<XML id="ss"></XML>
<XML id="resultTree"></XML>
</HTML>
Here "../servlet/SQLResult" is a servlet URL. 
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