JSP redirection and tabs..

[James Dean]

What is the best way to do redirection using jsp's? I have to make a site where there are different user roles, ie. admin role vs a regular user. What is the best way to redirect the person after they login based on there role, they will have different gui's for each role?
Also, what is a good way to do tabbed navigation using jsp's? After the person logs in based on there role they will have a different gui, what is a good way to implement this to cut down on the html gui code?
Thanks for the help.

[Prakash Dwivedi]

Hello James,
what architectiure are you using for your web-application?
if you have not yet decided than i will recommend struts, It isbased on MVC and will solve your problem to great extend.
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/

[lali virdi]

hi use RequestDispatcher to go from one page to another if they are in the same web application
if they are different webapplication then sendRedirect()

[Bear Bibeault]

Welcome to the Ranch "James Dean"!
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[Bear Bibeault]

Now as to your question:
If you are using a Model 2 pattern architecture for your app (and you should), then the login form should submit to a servlet that will authenticate the user and determine the user's role. (This info can be put into the session for future reference by subsequent requests).
Then, depending upon the determined role, you could forward to whichever JSP page is appropriate to display the UI for that role.
If the role UI's are not that different, I'd opt for creating custom tags that could be used on the page to conditionally include/exclude features not appropriate for the role (rather than having a lot of similar pages with only minor role-dependent differences).