servlets: forward method example program

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

<h2 align="center">Welcome</h2>

</body>

</html>

//ForwaredRequestDispatcher.java

package com.rajendra.servlets;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class ForwaredRequestDispatcher extends HttpServlet {

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,

HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException

{

response.setContentType("text/html");

PrintWriter out=response.getWriter();

ServletContext context=getServletContext();

RequestDispatcher requestDispatcher=context.getRequestDispatcher("/index.html“);

requestDispatcher.forward(request, response);

}

//web.xml

<web-app>

<display-name>RequestDispatcherExample</display-name>

<servlet-name>RequestDispatcherExample</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>com.rajendra.servlets.RequestDispatcherExample</servlet-class>

</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>

<servlet-name>RequestDispatcherExample</servlet-name>

<url-pattern>/RequestDispatcherExample</url-pattern>

</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

//before executing this program maintain the folder structure

servlets