Servlet to servlet help

Question

I've searched the archive and read through tons of older posts but I'm still struggling. I think what I'm trying to do is fairly easy, but I'm having trouble setting it up correctly.
There's an existing servlet that could be called from a link like this:
href="https://servername/servlet/LoginServlet?LoginName=xyzname&password=xyzpassword
I would like to call this servlet from my servlet(on the same server) and I need to grab the response from the servlet I call. Assuming I get the calling part fixed, how do I see what the response is?
Can anyone help me set this up? Right now I get errors on the request line when I try to compile it. Here's what I'm trying so far, I assume I'm not setting it up correctly:
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class StoneURLLoginS2S extends HttpServlet {
     public void doGet (HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
          String username = request.getParameter("username");
          String password = request.getParameter("password");
          request.getRequestDispatcher("/servlet/LoginServlet?loginName=" + username + "&password=" + password).forward(request,response);
}All help is greatly appreciated.
James

Answer 1

I know I've jumped all over the place on this post, and I'm about to do it again. Sorry.
I have the following code:
mport java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import com.stoneware.servlets.*;
import com.stoneware.beans.*;
public class StoneURLLogin extends StonewareServlet {
     private StonewareBean swBean = new StonewareBean();
     public void init( ServletConfig config ) throws ServletException {
          super.init( config );
     public void service( HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response ) throws ServletException, IOException {
          String username = request.getParameter("username");
          String password = request.getParameter("password");
          //String link = request.getParameter("link");
          //String key = request.getParameter("key");
          String sessionID = swBean.authenticateUserNoContext(username, password);
          if( swBean.isAuthenticated( sessionID ) == false ) {
               System.out.println( "User not authenticated." );
               return;
          if( swBean.isAccountDisabled( sessionID ) == true ) {
               System.out.println( "User account is disabled." );
               return;
          System.out.println( "The user is authenticated." );
     public String getServletInfo() {
          return "Simple authentication servlet.";
}I get the following error when I compile.
C:\Temp\Java>javac StoneURLLogin.java
StoneURLLogin.java:34: isAccountDisabled(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest) in com.stoneware.beans.StonewareBean cannot be applied to (java.lang.String)
if( swBean.isAccountDisabled( sessionID ) == true ) {
^
1 error
If I comment out that section I then get the following error:
C:\Temp\Java>javac StoneURLLogin.java
StoneURLLogin.java:14: unreported exception com.stoneware.StonewareException; must be caught or declared to be thrown
private StonewareBean swBean = new StonewareBean();
^
1 error
Obviously you don't have the docs for these classes, but it seems like something different than that. Like I'm missing something more fundamental here. Can anyone see it? Is there something wrong with how I declared swBean?
Thanks,
James