{"id":1745,"date":"2016-09-23T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2016-09-23T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T16:58:24","slug":"servletcontext-getrequestdispatcher-vs-servletrequest-getrequestdispatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/servletcontext-getrequestdispatcher-vs-servletrequest-getrequestdispatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"ServletContext.getRequestDispatcher() vs ServletRequest.getRequestDispatcher()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Context is stored at the application level scope where as request is stored at page level.If you use an absolute path(full path) such as (&#8220;http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/jargon\/a\/index.jsp&#8221;), there is no difference.  <\/p>\n<p>If you use relative path, you must use HttpServletRequest.getRequestDispatcher(). ServletContext.getRequestDispatcher() doesn&#8217;t allow it.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nRequestDispatcher dispatcher = \r\n        request.getRequestDispatcher(&quot;index.jsp&quot;);\r\n    dispatcher.forward( request, response ); \r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Will forward the request to the page http:\/\/example.com\/myapp\/subdir\/index.jsp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context is stored at the application level scope where as request is stored at page level.If you use an absolute path(full path) such as (&#8220;http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/jargon\/a\/index.jsp&#8221;), there is no difference. If you use relative path, you must use HttpServletRequest.getRequestDispatcher(). ServletContext.getRequestDispatcher() doesn&#8217;t allow it. RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(&quot;index.jsp&quot;); dispatcher.forward( request, response ); Will forward the request to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/servletcontext-getrequestdispatcher-vs-servletrequest-getrequestdispatcher\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-questions-j2ee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codethataint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}