How to: Do more cool things with AJAX and your web 2.0 servlets

This post will show you how to:

1. Make asynchronous servlet calls in your web 2.0 servlets,

2. Fill input fields with information obtained through an asynchronous call,

3. Fill an area of the screen with information from an asynchronous call.

That sure sounds onerous. What this post really does, for those of you who will stick through a little tech talk, is show you how to make your web 2.0 servlets behave as if the information is coming from a locally attached PC.