Hello , I'm trying to parse a jsp page within my servlet. The reason i want to to that is to use anothor program to parse a script which is generated after parsing the jsp. The parsing should give me back a script, which is used by an external program, after which i will send the result of this external program to the user. An example(im using it for someting different, but its a good example) of this could be that i have a latex document with jsp tags in the document. After the+jsp step, it would give me a latex only document. But i dont want to send this+latex document to the users. After i have this latex document, i want to run an external program (nah more then one in this situation (latex *.tex and dvi2ps *.dvi) which will give me back a postscript document. I tried the following(when this works, i can include my own ServletSesponse class which fills a String): public synchronized void service(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException,IOException { javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher dispatcher = getServletContext().getNamedDispatcher("jsp"); if(dispatcher == null) { log.error("AAARRRGGGG dispatcher was null, please enter a valid name for jsp parser('"+dispatcherName+"')!"); } dispatcher.include(req, res); } (neither include nor forward worked). public synchronized void service(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException,IOException { JspFactory factory = JspFactory.getDefaultFactory(); if(factory==null) { log.error("im getting this error all the time....."); } StringResponse tempResponse = new StringResponse(); PageContext pageContext = factory.getPageContext( this, //the requesting servlet req, //the current request pending on the servlet tempResponse, //the current response pending on the servlet null, //the URL of the error page for the requesting JSP, or null false, //true if the JSP participates in a session 1024, //size of buffer in bytes, PageContext.NO_BUFFER if no buffer, PageContext.DEFAULT_BUFFER if implementation default. true //should the buffer autoflush to the output stream on buffer overflow, or throw an IOException? ); pageContext.include(req.getRequestURI()); String parsedJsp = tempResponse.getString(); // now i can use the parsedJsp for generation of // somekinda file... let's say a pdf from a tex doc in which i // i used jsp.... } Please could somebody help me with this, since i dont get it to work myselve and im now working on it for a to long time :) -- Eduard Witteveen Systeemontwikkelaar NOS Internet Mediacentrum Kamer 203, tel. +31(0)35 6773059 Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? : The sixth Satire from Juvenal