passing information between servlets

[arnold yan]

Hi, this seems to be a long one, please bear with me,

I have jsp A, servlet B running on web app 1, and jsp C and servlet D running on web app2.

jsp A invokes servlet B, then B opens a URLConnection to servlet D, and writes some information through the connection. servlet D reads the information through the connection and invokes jsp C, passing .

My question is, how do I delegate control from jsp A over to jsp C? I believe once the URLConnection is closed, the control is still on servlet B of app 1. If I use response.sendRedirect to invoke servlet D after I close the URLConnection, the information I passed through URLConnection will be lost because my request will probably be handled by a new thread of servlet D, correct?

I can not use sendRedirect to pass the information because it is likely to run out of limit.

Thanks for your help.

Arnold

[Michael Parmeley]

Why are you using a URLConnection to pass information from Servlet to Servlet?

Why don't you just use setAttribute() and forward the request on.

request.setAttribute(String, Object);
request.getRequestDispatcher("/url_of_servlet").forward(request, response);

Then in the servlet you forward to:

request.getAttribute(String); (make sure you cast it to the appropriate object type)

[Bear Bibeault]

You cannot forward between different web apps.

[Jeff Walker]

 

Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
You cannot forward between different web apps.

Bear,
In "SCWCD Exam Study Guide" by Deshmukh & Malavia, it says at the bottom of page 57,
"You cannot directly forward or include a request to a resource in another web application. To do this, you need to get a reference to the ServletContext of the other web application using

this.getServletContext().getContext(uripath);

using this servlet context reference, you can retrieve an appropriate RequestDispatcher object as usual"


I have not tried it, but suspect it's poor design anyway.
-Jeff Walker

[Bear Bibeault]

That's true, but it assumes that the web apps are on the same server. I got the impression that they were not, but looking back at the OP, it's not clear.

(And no, I've never had the occasion to try it either).

[arnold yan]

For the sake of clarification, the two web apps are sitting on different boxes.

Arnold

[Adeel Ansari]

isn't it weired mates. you mean to say, switch to the different web app right? sorry no solutions with me. but anyways i need to know the way if there is any.