User Behavior Tracing

We are developing an application based on MVC architecture.

I want to trace the user navigational behavior. We plan to have logic implemented in controller.

But when user clicks on any link in JSP, it calls another JSP page directly and not sending request to the controller.

Use Session attributes to track a user.

Originally posted by Chetan Parekh:
We are developing an application based on MVC architecture.

I want to trace the user navigational behavior. We plan to have logic implemented in controller.

But when user clicks on any link in JSP, it calls another JSP page directly and not sending request to the controller.

As you said that you are following MVC architecture. So, isn't it better to navigate through the controller rather than JSP to JSP directly. All your request should go to the controller first in order to make log from a single place. Controller is there to entertain the requests. By passing controller would result in something, navigation logs, you couldn't go for sure. And you know that.
[ November 18, 2005: Message edited by: Adeel Ansari ]

Moreover, Filter is a good candidate for logging stuff.
[ November 18, 2005: Message edited by: Adeel Ansari ]

Originally posted by Adeel Ansari:

As you said that you are following MVC architecture. So, isn't it better to navigate through the controller rather than JSP to JSP directly. All your request should go to the controller first in order to make log from a single place. Controller is there to entertain the requests. By passing controller would result in something, navigation logs, you couldn't go for sure. And you know that.

[ November 18, 2005: Message edited by: Adeel Ansari ]

Problem is that I have nearly 5,000 static HTML pages that have over 100,000 cumulative hyper links.

I have converted them into JSP pages by renaming them to .jsp from .html and added necessary common JSP code.

Presently JSP is calling another JSP using hyperlink, but now that has to be done via controller.

How to do that at 100,000- places across 5,000 file?

Problem is that I have nearly 5,000 static HTML pages that have over 100,000 cumulative hyper links.

In this case, Mr. Ansari's second suggestion would be your best bet.
You can map a servlet filter to intercept, and log, any request for ".jsp" and/or ".html".
This can be done without having to change any of your hyperlinks.