Hi, Umm... What I do in such cases is contact a servlet, let it to all the state related stuff, and then it forwards the request to the JSP. The JSP then uses the Object placed into the session by the servlet, and renders it.
I don't know if this is acceptable as MVC though. Sriram 03/11/2001 3:25:22 PM, "Dr. Evil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm trying to use the Model-View-Controler design approach in Tomcat. >Here's what I'm trying to do: > >I'll put the Model stuff in a servlet. The View stuff will go into a >jsp page (actually a custom tag lib). What I need to do is, when I >view a page like foo.jsp, the servlet needs to get invoked to set up >some state, so the tags can then dispaly it. So, let's say the client >requests > >http://host/dir/foo.jsp > >I want to have a servlet, let's call it controler.class, be called, >do its stuff, and then get a RequestDispatcher, and then do >rd.forward() to foo.jsp. This doesn't seem to be possible. Is there >a way to do this? > >Thanks > >-- >To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
