Opening new Window in Spring

[Jon Jensen]

I have a form / view that I want to have open a new window when it is submitted and validation is passed. So you fill out a form, click submit, fix any validation errors, hit submit again, and viola -- you have a result in a new window. I found a way to do this in Chrome, but it doesn't work in IE or Firefox. Any ideas?

JSP:

<form action="/secure/reports.html" method="POST" target="_blank">

Controller:

  protected ModelAndView onSubmit(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Object command, BindException errors) throws Exception {
    request.getSession().setAttribute(REPORT_PARAMETERS, command);
    return new ModelAndView(new RedirectView("/secure/viewReport.html"));
  }

It is very simple and basic and the target="_blank" seems to do the trick in Chrome...Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

[Nathan Pruett]

This has nothing to do with Spring... target="_blank" is just HTML. It's supposed to open the link in a new window, but this is usually considered annoying, so most browsers configure it to open in a new tab, or in the same window. There's usually a configuration option within the browser to set this.

[Jon Jensen]

I realize that it isn't the preferred design. Is there a way in spring to handle the new windows, or am I just stuck doing a js or html trick.