Request Dispatcher not working

[ragi singh]

I have a servlet which retrieves a brand name from a model class and displays the result using PrintWriter . However , when i am using RequestDispatcher to redirect it to JSP it is not working , i mean the JSP page is getting displayed . Can anyone help me with it .
My code for the servlet is as follows:-

   package com.example.web;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
import java.util.*;

/**
 *
 * @author raginis
 */
public class BeerSelect extends HttpServlet {

    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)
    throws IOException,ServletException
    {
        PrintWriter out=response.getWriter();
        
        String c=request.getParameter("color");
        out.print("Color of the Beer selected " +c);
        out.print("\n");

        BeerExpert be=new BeerExpert();
        
        List results=new ArrayList();
        results=be.getAdvice(c);

        //out.print("Brands Suggested by expert ");
        /*Iterator it=results.iterator();
        while(it.hasNext()){
            out.print(" " + it.next());
        }
        
         */

       request.setAttribute("styles", results);
        RequestDispatcher view = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/result.jsp");
        view.forward(request,response);
       
    }
}
 

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[Abimaran Kugathasan]

I think, relative path will be the problem. Where is your result.jsp situated?

[ragi singh]

my application is in BeerApp folder

and the result.jsp is in the web folder in WEB-INF . I have given the path "/result.jsp" as an argument to getRequestDispatcher() .

[Bear Bibeault]

If the file is in WEB-INF, why isn't that part of the URL?

[Virendrasinh Gohil]

Bear Bibeault wrote:If the file is in WEB-INF, why isn't that part of the URL?

That's true ragi singh. You have to either keep the result.jsp outside of WEB-INF or keep WEB-INF in path.