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Prescott Pym wrote:
> 
> Gday again.
> 
> I'm having some trouble.  I can't figure out how to work Java and a cgi
> request.  What I want to do is to collect some information from a web page
> through a POST or GET method.  This would call a batch file (I'm running
> win98), and invoke the java interpreter.  I can't figure out how to read the
> data from the web browser, and how to get it back.
> 
> Any help much appreciated
> Prescott

The best thing to do with Java is to use Servlets rather than CGI. This
means that you don't start a new process for each request, and so is
*much* faster.

You don't say which web server you are using. Have a look at
www.servletcentral.com and go to their 'resources' section for a list of
servlet compatible web servers for your platform. The only one I've used
on Win32 is Jetty (www.mortbay.com) but there are many others which will
work.

Tom