A common pattern is to have your welcome file be a jsp that does nothing but forward to your first "action".
> -----Original Message----- > From: Anuj Agrawal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Is it accurate to say that we should never invoke a JSP file > directly? It > should always be forwarded to from some servlet? > > What if my first page (say, index.jsp) of my web app has some db query > results being displayed, is the "right" way to make it so > that my first page > is a servlet and after doing all the db stuff, it forwards to > the index.jsp? > > If that's true, then is there a way to configure the web app > (guessing via > web.xml) so that the welcome file is a particular servlet? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>