On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Velmurugan (Java Team) wrote:
> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:05:14 +0530
> From: "Velmurugan (Java Team)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Hans Schippers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: does the getRequestDispatcher().forward() method return
> control?
>
> Hi,
>
> I think this is a bug as per the servlet specification.Just check with some
> other servlet engine. I will forward this error to tomcat developer list. I
> was tested with Tomcat3.2.2.
>
> Velmurugan P.
> Java Team.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hans Schippers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:44 AM
> Subject: does the getRequestDispatcher().forward() method return control?
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > if in a servlet, I have some code like:
> >
> > getServletConfig().getRequestDispatcher("/my/page.jsp").forward(request,
> > response)
> >
> > Is it supposed to return control to the servlet afterwards?
> >
A call to RequestDispatcher.forward() is just like any other Java method
-- there is no magic here.
Control is indeed returned to the line after this line once it completes.
Java doesn't have anything like a longjmp() in C, so the only other
possibility would be that the code inside the forwarded-to servlet threw
an exception -- but your code above would still have a chance to catch
that if you put it inside a try/catch block.
> > >From what I find on the net, it isn't, but when I try to print something
> > to System.out after the forward call, that works...
> >
As above, control is absolutely returned. However, there are some
restrictions on what you can do afterwards -- in particular, you can no
longer write to the response (it is assumed that the forwarded-to servlet
took care of that already), so the only prudent thing to do is "return".
> > So did I misread on the www, or is this some bug in my webserver?
> >
> > I'm using JBoss/Tomcat btw...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Hans
> >
Craig
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