On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Chris Green wrote:
Every time I try and do some web application programming that involves forms (i.e. getting data from a user) it ends up being far more complicated than I expect (and more complicated than it should be I feel).
About fifteen years ago, I wrote a Java applet for obtaining and using form input from users of a web page. I no longer have the source code, but it seemed fairly painless, even though I was just learning Java (IIRC, from the relevant O'Reilly book) at the time.