forwarding to a different webApp

[Vladan Radovanovic]

Hello everyone,
Can someone give me some pointers how to forward the request to a servlet or a jsp page but in *different* web Application?
I would really appreciate help.
Vladan

[Anonymous]

Hi!
I do not know if it can help but you can use a sendRedirect to redirect on a url on a other application server.
see httpServletResponce.sendRedirect. If it is not what you want sorry!
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www.evisor.com

[Peter den Haan]

Originally posted by Vladan Radovanovic:
Can someone give me some pointers how to forward the request to a servlet or a jsp page but in *different* web Application?

You can only forward a request to a web-app inside the same engine. As you know, a RequestDispatcher will only work for a specific context (web-app). The trick is to first get the context for the web-app you want to forward to, and then get the RequestDispatcher from that context.
Say your other web-app root is "/your/other/web/app/root", and the servlet you want to forward to is "/servlets/theServlet" (its URI is "/your/other/web/app/root/servlets/theServlet").

ServletContext otherAppContext = getServletConfig().getServletContext().getContext("/your/other/web/app/root");
otherAppContext.getRequestDispatcher("/servlets/theServlet").forward(req, res);

If the servlet runs on a different server, you've got no choice but to use sendRedirect.
- Peter

[Vladan Radovanovic]

Peter, that is exactly what I thougth.
Thank You very much.
Vladan