Executing a jsp from a servlet

Hello all
I am a starter to JSP.
In an application I am developing, I have a servlet which receives a request from a form. If the user asks for a tabular representation of data (from the database), I want to use a JSP to display such a table since that way, I do not have to write all those out.printlns used in a servlet.
So is there a way to either pass control to a jsp from a servlet? I want to pass a hashtable and some data to the jsp from the servlet.
Please help with possible suggestions and code.
thanks a lot....
Mahesh :)

There is the RequestDispatcher object to forward request to another resource (as servlet or jsp).
If in your servlet you code:
RequestDispatcher rd=getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("your JSP URL");//instantiate a RequestDispatcher object
//sets Hastable as request attribute
request.setAttribute("yourAttributeName",yourHashtableName);
rd.forward(request,response);//forwards control to jsp
In your JSP you will retrieve Hashtable by following code:
Hastable ht=(Hashtable)request.getAttribute("yourAttributeName");

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