RequestDispatcher & forward method

[Saurabh Saha]

Hi,
Please tell me what is the difference between RequestDispather and <jsp:forward > method. I know that we use these two method to forward a request to any other page within the context. I want to know which is better approach to use RequestDispatcher or <jsp:forward >

Thanks,
Saurabh

[Ben Souther]

JSP forward gets translated into requestDispatcher when the JSP is converted to servlet code.

[Saurabh Saha]

Thanks Ben,
It means using RequestDispatcher is better than <jsp:forward >, please correct me, if I'm wrong.

[Ben Souther]

No, it means it's exactly the same.
<jsp:forward > will be translated into requestDispatcher.forward in the generated servlet code.

If I were going to forward from a JSP (which I never do) I would use <jsp:forward> because it's cleaner looking than putting a scriptlet in my JSP code. Performance-wise, there is absolutely no difference.

[Saurabh Saha]

Thanks Ben,

Now it's clear to me.