Remote Scripting

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Hi,

I have a question the some one may be able to answer.
In the pass I worked with Microsoft products is a web developer and using ASP I use a product call Remote Scripting which allow you to get information from the server with out reloading the page. Is there any think like that the I can use with JSP maybe is other way any suggestions will be appreciated. I have a form in the form is a list box that could be very big and difficult to find the data what I like to do is put in a row in top of the form the letters of the alphabet and when a user selects a letter display all the items the start with that letter with out reloading the page.

Thanks again.

 

[petey]

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. I think this is a proprietary extension to Internet Explorer rather than an ability of ASP by itself. In other words it's not a standard ability of web browsers, but theoretically any server side scripting language could handle it. I've seen Acrobat reader populate drop-downs on the fly by running a client-side JavaScript function that makes a call to a "remote" Servlet. Browser applets and standalone Java clients can also do such things, but it's not a part of standard web-app-over-HTTP model, if that makes sense.

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