December 2009
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
10h
English
When a request is received by a servlet, it may choose to either generate the response itself, relinquish processing to another servlet (known as forwarding), or request one or more other servlets to generate portions of the complete response (known as including).
The servlet container provides the request dispatcher mechanism in order to allow a servlet to engage other servlets in generating a response.
A few important rules apply to the process of dispatching a request:
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