Doubt on calling Servlet from JSP

hi all!!!

i am trying to call a servlet from a JSP....
sorry for such a long post
firstly

i have created a html file as below from which i am
calling JSP.....
trial.html

secondly i have created JSP from which i am calling
a servlet....which is saved in WEB-INF/classes folder
code for Testing.jsp is below

i am calling servlet named test in the
response.sendRedirect() method

here is code for test servlet

changes appropriate to web.xml file have been made
then also i am getting
HTTP STATUS -500
nullpointerException.............

i am trying a lot on it i dont know where i am going wrong

can anyone please help me onto
what is wrong with above code
or any help to solve my problem

it will be of great great help

thanks in advance...............

Dhwani:>Swimmers never weep.

If you're getting a NullPointerException, you need to take a look at the server logs to find out where the exception is being thrown.

Hi thr

Thanks for your reply but since i am a beginner
i dont have that much idea onto where
to look for Exceptions please can you ellaborate
and explain the above concept so that i can track
where i am actualy going wrong...........it will
be kinda of you.

Thanks in advance

Dhwani:>Its always too soon to quit.

Hi,

which web server you are using? if you are using tomcat then you can find all server messages in stdout.txt file which inside tomcat/logs/stdout.txt

Hi thr

i am using Tomcat server anyways thansk a lot
my problem is solved but not completly
still i am left with some doubts
actualy first i call html from which i am
calling jsp later i am calling servlet
from jsp using
response.sendredirect() method but
i have put some more coding on my jsp
that i am not getting in my output
i just get the output from my servlet

i mean to say how can i pass my control from
servlet back to jsp so that
i can get output from furthur below jsp code.
i have tried methods like getcontextpath("testing.jsp")
from my servlet but i dont know if
i am in right direction or not

any help on above will be realy great
thanks in advance

Dhwani:>Its always too soon to quit.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do exactly.
Can you post the relevant parts of your code?