IllegalStateException

[Ashutosh Arya]

Hi,
I am getting the below exception whenever I forward the control to a new JSp from servlet.
Please suggest a solution.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot forward request if ServletOutputStream or PrintWriter has already been obtained

This is coming whenever I try to forward the request to a new page although its not hampering the flow of the application.

Is it due to the use of request dispatcher?

Please help me out!

Aashu

[Vijitha Kumara]

Ashutosh Arya wrote:I am getting the below exception whenever I forward the control to a new JSp from servlet.
Please suggest a solution.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot forward request if ServletOutputStream or PrintWriter has already been obtained

This is coming whenever I try to forward the request to a new page although its not hampering the flow of the application.

Is it due to the use of request dispatcher?

Can you post that code snippet here? It would be easier to see what's wrong.

[Bear Bibeault]

It means you're probably doing a lot of things in your JSP that you should not be. It's very rare to need to forward from a JSP. That you are trying to do so may indicate a design flaw.

[Samuel March]

You need to decide at the top of the page before anything is started to be printed whether to redirect.
However, I believe that just like with tag classes , with JSP scriptlet or JSTL you can cancel page processing, then redirect, but that may be the same clause(meaning you could have processed a large portion of the page but not sent it).
Look through the <@page > directives for buffer , and i think one directive has an attribute output whether to be "verbose"(output as it occurs) also.
If you need to do that after print, you could cease at an appropriate element and print a javascript with
<script>
window.location="http://mysite/thepage.jsp";
</script>