The
servlet spec doesn't cover cross context behaviour in great detail (compared with other aspects of servlet apps) so, at best I would expect inconsistant behaviour between different containers.
Which one are you using?
Also, out of curiosity, why did you spread your app over multiple contexts?
It's something I've never done and have wondered what motivates others to do so.
Last, since this is more of a servlet issue than a
JSP specific one, I'm going to move it to our Servlets forum.