Hi, I am using TOMCAT 3.3 and the following code within servlet1 to forward a request String url; ServletContext sc = getServletContext(); RequestDispatcher rd = sc.getRequestDispatcher(url); rd.forward(request,response); servlet1 is called as follows: http://<IP-adress>/test/servlet/servlet1 The TOMCAT directory: c:\TOMCAT\webapps\test from here subdirectorys 'common' and 'Web-inf' exist servlet1 is known in web.xml String url is defined as follows: from servlet1 to servlet2 /servlet2 servlet2 is kown in web.xml from servlet1 to jsp2 /common/index.jsp This works fine as long as servlet1 and servlet2, servlet1 and jsp2 are located and known in the same TOMCAT servlet engine. My problem is: If servlet1 and servlet2, servlet1 and jsp2 are located on 2 different instances of the TOMCAT servlet engine the forward does not work. The RequestDispatcher always expects a path String relative to the root of the ServletContext. Does anybody know a solution? Axel Lannion/France