Thanks very much,

DD


> The main difference functionality-wise is getAttribute() returns an object
> and getParameter() returns a String. Normally, you would use getAttribute()
> to retrieve an object/data structure from a session and getParameter() to
> get data off of an HTML form.
> 
> John Owen
> Senior Developer
> Federal TransTel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NIkhil Subhash Palshikar [mailto:niko77@r...]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 10:08 AM
> To: Pro_JavaServer_Pages
> Subject: [pro_jsp] Re: The difference between getParameter and
> getAttribute ?
> 
> 
> 
> hi
> 
> these are two different methods
> getAttribute() returns the attributes related to the request
> on the other hand getParameter() returns the values posted from html Form
> form contained in the page from which the request originated.
> 
> regards
> niko
> 
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 adi@a... wrote :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to find out the difference between the 
> > following two methods 
> > of the ServletRequest interface:
> > getParameter
> > getAttribute 
> > 
> > They seem to both contain the same information ?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> >    DD
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