showstatus(textfield1.gettext());
url servlet = new url(this.getdocumentbase(),"servlet/getparameterservlet");
urlconnection connection = servlet.openconnection();
connection.setusecaches(false);
connection.setdooutput(true);
bytearrayoutputstream bytestream = new bytearrayoutputstream(1024);
printwriter out = new printwriter(bytestream, true);
string postdata = "name=" + urlencoder.encode(textfield1.gettext());
out.print(postdata);
out.flush();
string lengthstring = string.valueof(bytestream.size());
connection.setrequestproperty("content-length", lengthstring);
connection.setrequestproperty("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
bytestream.writeto(connection.getoutputstream());
bufferedreader br = new bufferedreader(new inputstreamreader(connection.getinputstream()));
textarea1.settext("");
string s;
for(; (s = br.readline()) != null && s.length() > 0; textarea1.appendtext(s + ""));
   ...

// getparameterservlet
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;


public class getparameterservlet extends httpservlet {
  public void doget(httpservletrequest request,
                    httpservletresponse response)
      throws servletexception, ioexception {
    response.setcontenttype("text/html");
    
    printwriter out = response.getwriter();
    string title = "reading request parameters";
    string name = request.getparameter("name");
    out.println(title);
    out.println("hello: " + name );    
    
  }

  public void dopost(httpservletrequest request,
                     httpservletresponse response)
      throws servletexception, ioexception {
    doget(request, response);
  }
}