ways to include a servlet from a JSP

[Tony Evans]

I know how to call a servlet froma JSP using a form. But what I want to do is call a servlet to do some processing from a servlet. I think there is a way round it using ServletDispatcher().include which will call the servlet carry out the process and then return to the calling page.

Problem is I cant find any example code.

Thanks for any help Tony

[William Brogden]

Example in Sun's tutorial. found by Google search for "servlet tutorial requestdispatcher"
Bill

[Anthony Watson]

RequestDispatcher rd = myServletContext.getRequestDispatcher("/contextRelativePath");
rd.include(request, response);

You can also use a relative path if you get the RequestDispatcher from the ServletRequest object.

[Tony Evans]

Thanks Tony

[Vasilis Karas]

you can use also use a JSP standard Action:

<jsp:include page="/servletUrlMapping" flush="true">
<jsp aram name="paramName" value="paramValue" />
</jsp:include>