>From my point of view it will reduce the load of traffic caused by response.redirect which will send the response to the client (HTTP 302) then the client has to request another page. forward will 'redirect' the request to another page and the response from the new page will be send to the client's browser. Erwin Kodiat Mitrais Software Development Center Bali, Indonesia Tel: +62 361 755025 Fax: +62 361 755024 http://www.mitrais.com This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential information. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete it and notify the sender. The contents of this E-mail are the opinion of the writer only and are not endorsed by MROnly.com Pte Ltd unless expressly stated otherwise. -----Original Message----- From: TERENCE YEO KAI SIANG, CUSD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 20:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: When will RequestDispatcher.forward actually does the work of for warding to the next servlet/jsp? Hi: I'm quite puzzled by the method RequestDispatcher.forward(request, response) and how it will fit into the servlet lifecycle?? Cos I can't find any info in the Servlet Specs 2.2... Thanks for the info. Terence This communication contains confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us IMMEDIATELY that you have received it and destroy it. We are not liable for any unauthorised sending of or interference with this communication. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
