Does anyone know if the session will remain the same if you forward a
request to another servlet context like that, or there will be another
session in the other context?
  I would say that the jsp 'application' variable is another, because the
'application' is the ServletContext itself.

  []'s,

  Rodrigo.


> According to the Servlet spec, you can get access to another
> ServletContext
> than the one you're running in with:
>
>   getServletContext().getContext("/othercontext");
>
> So, something like this should work for your example:
>
>   ServletContext loginCtx = getServletContext().getContext("/login");
>   RequestDispatcher rd =
>     loginCtx.getRequestDispatcher("/servlet/LoginServlet");
>   rd.forward(request, response);
>
> Note, however, that the container may not allow you to get access to
> the other context due to security constraints. If so, it will return
> null instead. How to declare context security constraints is vendor
> dependent.
>
> Hans
> --
> Hans Bergsten           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gefion Software         http://www.gefionsoftware.com
> Author of JavaServer Pages (O'Reilly), http://TheJSPBook.com

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