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Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAVE TOWNSEND [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 06 September 1999 08:53
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Two questions
>
>
> Can't answer the first, but I would suggest for the second
> that you try the
> <%= %> tag, which is to my understanding, used to declare class-wide
> objects, so could probably be used as:
>
> <%=
> public void runMe()
> {
> // Do something
> }
> %>
>
> Although I have never tried this, and I'm not sure that the spec
> specifically allows this.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike McElligott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 03 September 1999 18:36
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Two questions
>
>
>
> 1. Last night I was attempting to use a RequestDispatcher
> object to forward
> to another page. That didn't work (I think it may be a configuration
> issue). When I used the <jsp:forward page='blah'> syntax
> instead things
> worked great. I wondered what that tag got translated into
> so I looked at
> the generated source and found that the servlet actually uses
> PageContext.forward(String url). Anyone know why that is the case vs.
> ServletContext.getRequestDispatcher(String resource).foward(request,
> response)?
>
> 2. Can I define a function in jsp? I don't see any
> reference to doing so
> in the spec. I'm aware that this is the 'wrong' way to do
> stuff and that I
> should do my logic in a bean, but I want to know if it's
> possible. It seems
> like something that, even if it isn't in the spec, will probably be
> implemented by vendors who want to compete with the
> versatility of...ahh..
> other scripting environments.
>
>
> Michael McElligott
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