Calling an Applet from a Form

[Abinaash]

I'm working on an applet that is called by an HTML form. I was wondering
if it's legitimate to call the class file right form the form tag as follows:

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<form action="http://canada.watsonwyatt.com:4620/InfoSource/DBTextAppletNew.class"
method="POST">
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I've tried doing this, but it's giving me the following error:

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Server Error

This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling
your request. The most likely cause is a
misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the
server's error log.
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I don't know what that means. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

-Abinaash

[Tom Duffy]

Hello Abinaash:

It looks like you're mixing up the client side with the server side. An
applet gets executed on the client. Sounds like you need a servlet - which
comes with request and response objects built in.

Hope this helps.

Tom

"Abinaash" <abinaash@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>I'm working on an applet that is called by an HTML form. I was wondering
>if it's legitimate to call the class file right form the form tag as follows:
>
>---------------
><form action="http://canada.watsonwyatt.com:4620/InfoSource/DBTextAppletNew.class"
>method="POST">
>--------------
>
>I've tried doing this, but it's giving me the following error:
>
>--------------
>Server Error
>
>This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling
>your request. The most likely cause is a
>misconfiguration. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the
>server's error log.
>-------------
>
>I don't know what that means. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-Abinaash
>