Lo, Evil. You can look at Struts, as suggested, or take a look at David Geary's new book on taglibs, with it's sample app in the last (I think) chapter. He has everything you are asking for precoded. Micael
-----Original Message----- From: Dr. Evil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, November 03, 2001 2:00 AM Subject: MVC in Tomcat is hard > >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 > >-- >To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
