Forms applet does not load when request forwarded from custom servlet

Question

I have an existing forms app that I wish to call from a newly-developed servlet. The servlet determines which form to call and then forwards the request to the forms servlet using RequestDispatcher.forward().
The request is forwarded correctly but when it is done all I see is a blank browser (IE7) window. When I View Source I see all the correct HTML code (from basejpi.htm) but it seems my browser does not attempt to load the forms applet. No messages are displayed in the Java Console. This is the same HTML that comes back if I run the forms app directly, e.g. click a link that goes straight to the forms servlet URL, only in that case the forms app starts up fine.
Anyone know why this does not work?

Answer 1

Figured out what is going on:
In basejpi.htm there is "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=java/forms_ie.js>" that creates an OBJECT tag to load the forms applet. I believe since the context of my custom servlet is different than that of the forms servlet, forms_ie.js is not found when the request is forwarded from my servlet.
One question answered raises another. There is also an OBJECT tag inside a NOSCRIPT tag for machines where scripting has been disabled:
<!-- Forms applet definition (start) -->
<NOSCRIPT>
<OBJECT name=FormsApplet
type="application/x-java-applet"
...>
</NOSCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="java/forms_ie.js"></SCRIPT>
My thinking is to remove the NOSCRIPT tag, and also the SCRIPT tag mentioned above, so all machines will simply see the OBJECT tag, like so:
<!-- Forms applet definition (start) -->
<OBJECT name=FormsApplet
type="application/x-java-applet"
...>
This makes me wonder why the SCRIPT option is there to begin with. Anyone see a downside to this approach?
Kevin