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Chapter 3 Handling the Client Request: Form Data

Figure 3 4

Output of ShowParameters servlet.

3.5 A Resume Posting Service

On line job services have become increasingly popular of late. A reputable

site provides a useful service to job seekers by giving their skills wide expo 

sure and provides a useful service to employers by giving them access to a

large pool of prospective employees. This section presents a servlet that han 

dles part of such a site: the submission of on line resumes.

Listing 3.5 and Figure 3 5 show the HTML form that acts as the front end

to the resume processing servlet. If you are not familiar with HTML forms,

they are covered in detail in Chapter 16. The important thing to understand

here is that the form uses 

POST

 to submit the data and that it gathers values

for the following parameter names:

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