Using request the URL given can be relative and using the application it has to be absolute begining with a '/'. Check to see if this may be the cause of the error.
Thanks and Regards,
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Gary Grewal
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Mynsted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RequestDispatcher failure
Has anybody seen this behavior?
If I use the following code I get no errors.
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(url);
dispatcher.forward(request, response);
If I use the following code I get a null pointer exception because
dispatcher is null.
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = application.getRequestDispatcher(url);
dispatcher.forward(request, response);
This does not make sense to me.
request is the subclass of javax.servlet.ServletRequest for this
request. application is the javax.servlet.ServletContext. I know
that application is defined because I use it all the time for logging,
e.g. application.log("This is a log message");
Both the javax.servlet.ServletRequest and javax.servlet.ServletContext
have a getRequestDispatcher(String) method.
Sincerely yours;
Mark Mynsted
VHA Management Information Systems Client Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(972) 830 - 0592, Internal x1592
