Controller Is Being Called Twice - Why???

I think this is going to be a complicated question to answer but I'll try to explain what's going on as best I can. The basic problem I'm having is that the controller class gets called twice for some reason (instead of once) and I have no idea why. I type in a URL in my browser that goes to a JSP page called �myJsp.jsp�. Basically all that page contains is this...
<tiles:insert definition =�my.tile� flush=�true�/>In my tiles-defs.xml file I have the following listing...<definition
name="my.tile"
path="SomeOtherJsp.jsp"
controllerClass="x.y.z.MyController">
</definition>
x.y.z.MyController.java makes some calls to a DAO to retrieve data. MyController.java then puts that data into the requestScope for the JSP below to access...
SomeOtherJsp.jsp has nothing special in it although it DOES contain a link to myJsp.jsp (and, somehow, it's like this link is being clicked even though I'm not clicking it).
<a href="myJsp.jsp?someParam=<c:out value="${requestScope.someValue}"/>">Click Here To Do Something</a>If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it. By the way, I spoke to someone else who mentioned that I should turn this kind of thing into a struts action instead of doing a deletion within a controller class. I am going to refactor my code to do this. However, I'm still curious to know the answer to my question. Maybe it will help me get a better understanding of exactly what's going on in the world of servlets. :)

Hi Shiv, <br><br>
Yes I have placed System.out.println...and a debug point ...<br>
super.processRequest(pageContext, webBean);<br>
OAApplicationModule am = pageContext.getApplicationModule(webBean); <br>
// String personId="13477";<br>
// Serializable[] parameters = { personId };<br>
if (!pageContext.isFormSubmission()) { <br>
am.invokeMethod("createEmployeeRow", null);<br>
}<br>
//am.invokeMethod("initDetails",parameters);<br>
System.out.println("!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IN Process Request"); <br>
debug point is at String personID="13477"....<br><br>
Thanks<br>Soujanya

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