how to call a servlet from jsf managed bean?

[lynn fann]

i need to call a servlet "myServlet" from my managed bean, how do i do it?

thanks.

[Lalit Bhatt]

you can get the ServletContext from FacesContext and than dispatch the request

FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
ServletContext sc = (ServletContext) fc.getExternalContext().getContext();
sc.getRequestDispatcher(url);