dispatching requests

[Ken Sampson]

Hello,

I have 2 servlets called TestServlet1 and TestServlet2.
In the first servlet, I write either of the following statements that would forward the page to TestServlet2.

RequestDispatcher dispatch = request.getRequestDiaspatcher("TestServlet2");

and

RequestDispatcher dispatch = request.getRequestDiaspatcher("/TestServlet2");

Could you please tell me if there is any difference between the above statements. Does that slash ("/") make any difference to anything?

[Christophe Verré]

A path beginning with "/" is relative to the application context, whereas a path not beginning with "/" is relative to the current request.

Application : /myapp
Request : /myapp/registerUser
If you forward to "/home", the request will map to "/myapp/home". If you forward to "home", the request will map to "myapp/registerUser/home".