I've not tried this yet, but here's another idea (Note : I'm absolutely new to Web 
related stuff, and have not idea on how to use taglibs...)

-> Submit a request to the JSP with a parameter. Perhaps a hidden field.
-> The JSP examines the request for this field, and then forwards to the servlet if 
the field values so indicates.
-> The servlet receives the request, does some processing, and then forwards back to 
the jsp, after setting a new value for the hidden field.
-> the JSP receives this request, checks the field, decides that it now has to do some 
new stuff,
-> Gets the info the servlet had placed into the session, and uses this info to rencer 
the page.

Childish, perhaps, but I can't think of anything else. (Must read up on taglibs...)

Sriram

03/11/2001 3:25:22 PM, "Dr. Evil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>I'm trying to use the Model-View-Controler design approach in Tomcat.
>Here's what I'm trying to do:
>
>I'll put the Model stuff in a servlet.  The View stuff will go into a
>jsp page (actually a custom tag lib).  What I need to do is, when I
>view a page like foo.jsp, the servlet needs to get invoked to set up
>some state, so the tags can then dispaly it.  So, let's say the client
>requests
>
>http://host/dir/foo.jsp
>
>I want to have a servlet, let's call it controler.class, be called,
>do its stuff, and then get a RequestDispatcher, and then do
>rd.forward() to foo.jsp.  This doesn't seem to be possible.  Is there
>a way to do this?
>
>Thanks
>
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