Forwarding to a HTML page from a servlet

[Tony Evans]

I have a servlet which does login validation, I want to then either call an error page or call a frame. I am not sure how to call a HTML page from within a servlet.
Is there code or a method that is similar to the getRequestDispatcher.

Thanks Tony

[William Brogden]

If you will examine the JavaDocs for javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher, you will see that it can be used for any resource - "servlet, HTML file or JSP"
Bill

[Ali Gohar]

Hi Tony,
There is not benefit of forwarding the request to HTML page. Instead you can use the following code to call the HTML page from your servlet:
response.sendRedirect("/welcome.html");

[William Brogden]

response.sendRedirect does NOT "call the HTML page from your servlet"
It terminates the request by sending a response having the redirect header - the user's browser is then supposed to create a new request to the specified URL.
Forwarding keeps the same request so there is one less request/response cycle.
Bill