Can we define multiple forward on single servlet?

What I am trying to do is defining one forward inside IF statement and one after that statement ended.
But it is not working. Please tell me why?
When I am defining only one forward after the IF statement it is working alright.

ronney singh wrote:But it is not working. Please tell me why?

Start by reading our FAQ documents at these links: ItDoesntWorkIsUseless, TellTheDetails.

What I am expecting to happen is if variable value is 'e' then some code will run and forward it to "edit" action
If variable value is not 'e' then servlet should forward it to "failure" action
For better understanding code

{
                String mode=request.getParameter("mode");
		        String img=request.getParameter("img");
		        request.setAttribute("img", img);
		       Connection con=SingltonConntn.getConn();
		       Statement st=con.createStatement();
		       ArrayList al=new ArrayList();
		             if(mode.equals('e'))
		             {
		                   ResultSet rs=st.executeQuery("select * from movies where m_image='"+img+"'");
		                           while(rs.next())
		                           {
		                             WelcomeCBean wb=new WelcomeCBean();
		                             wb.setMoviename(rs.getString("m_name"));
		                             wb.setCertification(rs.getString("m_certification"));
		                             wb.setDetails(rs.getString("m_details"));
		                             al.add(wb);
		                            }
		                   request.setAttribute("list", al);
		                   forward=mapping.findForward("edit");
		              }
		
		 forward=mapping.findForward("failure");
                }

This servlet is forwarding the page to "failure" action even when the String mode is 'e'.
when I have removed "forward=mapping.findForward("failure");" then error came that website has programming error or it is under maintenance.

Well, yeah. If the mode is 'e' then eventually line 19 is executed. And right after that, line 22 is executed. What is the end result?

This is Java code you have posted there. It runs in a Java runtime environment. It's Java. Don't assume that just because you have a variable named "forward" that it will be treated differently than any other variable.

Ever heard of else?

Now I have written last line-"forward=mapping.findForward("failure");"
in else but still when the value of mode is 'e' it is forwarding to failure action. Why it is so?

Show us, don't tell us. And be sure to use proper indentation in your code. It's really hard to see the conditional structures when your code is poorly written.

Paul Clapham wrote:Well, yeah. If the mode is 'e' then eventually line 19 is executed. And right after that, line 22 is executed. What is the end result?

But When I removed line 22 and value of mode is 'e' then why it is showing "website has programming error" because now the last value of forward must be 'edit'?

Here is the code-

try {
		String mode=request.getParameter("mode");
		request.setAttribute("mode", mode);
		String img=request.getParameter("img");
		request.setAttribute("img", img);
		
        Connection con=SingltonConntn.getConn();
		Statement st=con.createStatement();
		ArrayList al=new ArrayList();
		      if(mode.equals('e'))
		         {
		                ResultSet rs=st.executeQuery("select * from movies where m_image='"+img+"'");
		                    while(rs.next())
		                    {
		                    WelcomeCBean wb=new WelcomeCBean();
		                    wb.setMoviename(rs.getString("m_name"));
		                    wb.setCertification(rs.getString("m_certification"));
		                    wb.setDetails(rs.getString("m_details"));
		                    al.add(wb);
		                    }
		                request.setAttribute("list", al);
		                forward=mapping.findForward("edit");
		         }
		       else{
			       forward=mapping.findForward("failure");
		            }
    }

If line 25 is executing, then mode isn't 'e'.

Why aren't you using logging statements or a debugger to debug this?

ronney singh wrote:why it is showing "website has programming error"

How should we know? We don't even know what the "it" is which showing that. (You didn't TellTheDetails.) At any rate let's assume that it's correct. Then the website (yours) has a programming error. Quite possibly that's because some code threw an exception, although that's just a guess. In which case it's quite likely that there is a log which will contain a stack trace of that exception; you should look for that.

I have checked the value of mode on jsp page where "failure" is forwarding by using scriptlet

It is showing that value of mode is 'e'.

That means nothing. It's the value in the servlet that matters.

So:

Why aren't you using logging or a debugger to debug this?

Why do you have discredited scriptlets in your JSP?

That's a really poor practice.

Bear Bibeault wrote:If line 25 is executing, then mode isn't 'e'.

Actually the expression

will always return false regardless of the value of the mode variable (except if it's null). It would be less confusing and more accurate to use this instead:

Doh! Missed the single quotes! Good catch!

Thanks and Great catch sir
I am Beginner in java I don't have any idea how to use logging so it would be great if anyone can provide me link how to use logging.

java.util.logging.Logger or Log4J.

Thank you very much sir.