question on <jsp:include>

[subir rastogi]

Hi,
I was reading about <jsp:include> in JSP spec but did not quite understand how the page behaves for relave or absolute url's. For eg:

1. <jsp:include page="/dirA/test.jsp" > and the webapp context path is app1 then what should be the location of test.jsp.
Should it be /app1/dirA/test.jsp?

2. What should be location when of test.jsp <jsp:include page="dirA/test.jsp" >?

Thanks,
Subir

[Frits Walraven]

Hi Subir,

1. <jsp:include page="/dirA/test.jsp" > and the webapp context path is app1 then what should be the location of test.jsp.
Should it be /app1/dirA/test.jsp?

Correct

2. What should be location when of test.jsp <jsp:include page="dirA/test.jsp" >?

This depends on the location of the including jsp:
If the including jsp has a location of:
/app1/dirA/including.jsp

it will look for the test.jsp in the following dir:
/app1/dirA/dirA/test.jsp

so relative to the location of the including jsp

Regards,
Frits