How to call jsp /servlets running in different web application in tomcat

Question

hello all,
i have 2 web applications(Charts and Reports) in the same tomcat,i want to call jsp/servlets running in the Reports webapp from Charts webapp.how do i achieve this.
thanx
ravi

Answer 1

You can also use getContext(String context) in the ServletContext class to get a request dispatcher.
Using the above example it would be :
// in a servlet in the charts webapp
ServletContext context = getServletContext();
ServletContext reportsContext = context.getContext("/reports");
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = reportsContext.getRequestDispatcher("/path")
dispatcher.forward(request, response);Just note, that depending on your server's configuration getContext(...) might return null.