problem sending xml from javascript to jsp (PLS HELP)

Hi, I hope there will some help for my problem:

I'm using Windows + Tomcat 5.5

I have a javascript that does :

<script language="javascript">

function sendXML()

{

var str = "<testing1>1234</testing>";

var tempdom= new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument");

tempdom.async = false;

tempdom.loadXML(str);

var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

try{

xmlhttp.Open("POST","http://localhost:8081/emr/jsp/b.jsp",false);

xmlhttp.Send(tempdom.xml);

var s=xmlhttp.responseText;

alert (s);

}

catch(e){alert(e.reason)}

}

</script>

When this function is triggered, I wish to post the xml data <testing>1234</testing> to the b.jsp. I want b.jsp to receive the xml data and process it. The jsp is simple:

<%@ page import ="javax.xml.parsers.*"%>

<%

try

{

DocumentBuilderFactory Dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

DocumentBuilder bd = Dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

org.w3c.dom.Document mainDoc=bd.parse(request.getInputStream());

out.print ("OK");

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

ex.printStackTrace();

}

%>

When this b.jsp is executed, the message "OK" does not comes out. And checking the log file from tomcat gives me:

oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Start of root element expected.

at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors(XMLError.java:148)

at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:298)

at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:260)

at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:149)

at oracle.xml.jaxp.JXDocumentBuilder.parse(JXDocumentBuilder.java:96)

at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.jsp.jsp.b_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.jsp.b_jsp:50)

at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332)

at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)

at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)

at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:432)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:868)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:663)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Sean

[3913 byte] By [sean_a] at [2007-10-2 20:58:44]
# 1
I would suggest printing out the contents of the input as you receive them in the JSP.PS, your architecture smells. What's with the ActiveX objects? What's with putting all you business logic in JSPs?
Herko_ter_Horsta at 2007-7-13 23:43:26 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...