Thanks for the prompt, and on point, input. After playing with redirects, I think I'll be able to implement the functionality I desire.
-----Original Message----- From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:46 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: How to forward to an Action in one web app, from the Action ofa different web app Frank L. Bowar wrote: >I have 3 different Struts (1.1) web applications all running in the >same Tomcat (4.1) server. When the user presses a button on a form of >one of the applications, tied to a Struts Action, I would like that >Action to be able to forward control to an Action within a different >web application, which would build the page and display it to the user. >I would like this new application to be able to "remember" who called >it, and at some point, when the user presses a button that says "Return >to original application", the new application will forward the user >back to the original application at/near the point where they first >left it. > > > I'm not following Tomcat development closely any longer, but I seem to recall that cross-context request dispatcher calls were fraught with problems up until very recent releases of 5.0.x. To make matters more intricate in your case, 4.1 is now in maintenance mode, so it's unlikely that a bug report against it would get much attention either. If you can try this against 5.0.19 or later, I wouldn't be surprised if it works. As a fallback, consider using redirects instead of forwards. Craig PS: Anyone who is running Tomcat 4.x and has the ability to upgrade should really look at this ... 5.x is more stable, faster, backwards compatible (for Servlet 2.3 / JSP 1.2 based applications), plus it enables you to use JSP 2.0 for new stuff. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
