execute another servlet from the current servlet

[javanemo]

Hi
I have got a question. How do I call another servlet?

http://localhost/test/servlet/FirstServlet

http://localhost/test/servlet/SecondServlet

How do I call SencondServlet from the FirstServlet?
I do not wish to use the url method. Is there another way?

 

[elanja]

Try the following
response.sendreDirect("

http://localhost/test/servlet/secondservlet");

 

[javanemo]

as i already said
i do not want to use the URL method

 

[sedj]

Look at the UrlConnection class

 

[javanemo]

where to get the URLConnection class?
I tried using the requestdispatcher but it did not work

 

[sedj]

>>>>> where to get the URLConnection class?
Please look at the documentation at :

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/net/URLConnection.html

>>>>> I tried using the requestdispatcher but it did not work
There are no methods of class RequestDispatcher that return a URLConnection object, or to my knowledge in the javax.servlet package or sub-packages.

Why can you not use the redirect() or include() methods of the RequestDispatcher ? These handle pretty much anything you could want to do to control pacge flow from a servlet.

Another problem is why are you calling a servlet from another servlet ... standard practice is for a web application to have only one 'Controller' Servlet - so there is only one place which controls and redirects page flow and business logic ... you may want to consider your reasons/ and /or redesign your application.