>>>>> "nickm" == nickm  <Nick> writes:

    nickm> Hi:

    nickm> I am trying to use the JSP forward tag and have been getting strange
    nickm> behaviour where I  keep getting 404 errors.

    nickm> I am using a MVC (sort of) approach to web application design except instead
    nickm> of using a servlet as the target of my forms I use a JSP page who's
    nickm> function it is too pass the form variables to a bean and then forward the
    nickm> user to another page if no errors are thrown.

    nickm> The conditional code that intiates a forward action:

    nickm> if (dataInsertGood.equals("true") && okToSubmit == "true") {
    nickm> %>
    nickm> <jsp:forward page="/agenda/agenda.jsp"/>
    nickm> <%

    nickm> The file I want it to forward to is in a folder called 'agenda' that sits on
    nickm> the root of the web application. One thing I noticed is that when I forward
    nickm> to the new page (in this case agenda.jsp) the url does not display the page
    nickm> I forwarded to, rather it displays the JSP page that I used as the
    nickm> controller?

Don't use "==" to compare strings.  That checks if they are the SAME OBJECT,
not whether they have the same contents.  Use ".equals()", as you did for the
other one.

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