forwarding response from Servlet to Jsp

[Bunty Paul]

I have a problem . I have a screen where when i press a button it goes to the servlet , and there i am constructing a rtf or pdf file , then writing to the output stream and closing it. But after that i want to go back to the same jsp and display some message .

response.setContentType("application/text");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition",
"inline; filename=\"" + "test.pdf" +"\"");
response().setBufferSize(100*1024); //100KB

OutputStream fos;
fos = response().getOutputStream();
BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);
bos.write(data.toString().getBytes());
bos.flush();
bos.close();

after this i have to forward the response to jsp.

I get the exception : java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot forward after response has been committed

I am using struts framework.

I know a response cannot be forwarded to jsp after closing the stream

but still i want to acheive this requirement somehow.

is there any other way of doing it. i believe nothing is impossible

[Manoj Paul]

How could you say "nothing is impossible"

I have done "nothing" in the past 24 hours....
And believe me "Its possible"

[Jesus Angeles]

May I ask why you want to have further jsp processing on that scenario?

[Bunty Paul]

Originally posted by Jesus Angeles:
May I ask why you want to have further jsp processing on that scenario?

Thats the requirement for the project i am working on.

[Adeel Ansari]

Can you please elaborate your requirement? Like what kind of message you want to display using a JSP page? And if its like that then why are you throwing the output to the user using response object in your first place?

[Bear Bibeault]

Guess what? It is impossible.

You cannot return two responses for one request.

What is possible is to forward to the JSP, and then using Javascript on the page, cause a request to a servlet to fetch the PDF.

Setting the content-disposition correctly (search through this forum for examples) will cause the JSP to remain displayed while the user is presented with the download dialog.