Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi everyone!

Here at work we have developed a htc file (JScript) to enable full keyboard navigation in web forms. Using this file, it's a matter of including it in the header and declare the forms components using XML directly in the HTML and the user can cycle through all the forms elements in any direction using ctrl+navigation keys, plus in the XML definition the developer can make key bindings so a key combination can reset the form, other can send it to the server, etc.

The problem with this is that's Internet Explorer, to make it cross browser would require almost rewriting the whole thing. I'm trying to develop the same using more "permanent" technology (read more robust and compatible). I have some experience with Java on the desktop but not so much with Java for web applications.

I was looking at something with JSP and/or servlets but I don't know if I can do what I want with these tools since I don't want the application going to the server everytime the user press a key as I want the Java solution to outperform the IE only one (or at least perform the same).

Can anyone point me in the right direction??
Thanks a lot!.