RequestDispatcher in Servlet: The RequestDispacher interface provides the facility of dispatching the request to another resource it may be html, servlet or jsp.This interface can also be used to include the content of antoher resource also. It is one of the way of servlet collaboration.
There are two methods defined in the RequestDispatcher interface.
Methods of RequestDispatcher interface
The RequestDispatcher interface provides two methods. They are:
- public void forward(ServletRequest request,ServletResponse response)throws ServletException,java.io.IOException:Forwards a request from a servlet to another resource (servlet, JSP file, or HTML file) on the server.
- public void include(ServletRequest request,ServletResponse response)throws ServletException,java.io.IOException:Includes the content of a resource (servlet, JSP page, or HTML file) in the response.
