01 May 2005 - java_dev (original) (raw)

I'm having a little web-application, using Jakarta Tomcat server, where JSP is for presentation mainly and servlets are used for business logic stuff. I have a servlet, which is mapped in web.xml file like this:

After being called by it's url this servlet does some action and then passes control further, to another .jsp page, using dispatcher:

rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/test_page.jsp"); rd.forward(req, res);

And it all works ok and test_page.jsp is being loaded, but what I'm not happy about is that the address line in a browser still has "admin.jsp" written there, not "test_page.jsp". So if I try to Refresh the page - it would start the servlet Admin again.

Could anyone tell me how to avoid this address thing? I don't want to use encodeURL() though (which doesn't have such problem), because the dispatcher works faster.