RequestDispatcher.forward to another servlet to handle form in doPost?

[Ken Flor]

Hi,

I have a servlet named ServletA. I did a RequestDispatcher.forward to ServletB.

However in ServletB, I have to handle a Post action due to form handling. However, it will not trigger the doPost in ServletB. Instead it triggers the doPost in ServletA. I do not wish it to trigger doPost in ServletA.

I cannot do a redirect from ServletA to ServletB as I need to retain the context information.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[ramprasad madathil]

Is there a reason why you cant call the doPost() from the doGet() in servletB?

If the post request is mapped to ServletA, it will be the doPost() in ServletA that will be executed. Infact you receive an error if you dont have a doPost() method in ServletA.

And finally context information is available across requests (and sessions for that matter).

ram.

[Ben Souther]

If the request made to servlet A is of type POST and you forward to ServletB from within ServletA's doPost method the doPost method of ServletB will be called.