Portlet Development Question

I have a portlet and the doView() method dispatched the index.jsp page. This page accepts a name to perform a query lookup after hitting submit and displays a list of people. I want to be able to click on the person's name and do a query search of details for that person.

So, if I have an onClink on the person's name and pass the userid to a javascript function, how does the doView() or processAction() method handle this. Bascially, I want the portlet to retrieve the userid passed from the javascript function so that I can perform another database seach.

Any suggestions?

[600 byte] By [mccordla] at [2007-11-27 11:59:14]