Hi,

I've been using RequestDispatcher.forward in some of my jsp codes.
I always thought that when this is called, the page gets forwarded and the rest of the file will not be excuted any more. But recently I just realised that is not the case.

I have some simple code that does this:

<%

int i = 0;
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = null;
String url = "/somepage.jsp";

if (i == 0) {
  dispatcher = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(response. encodeURL(url));
  dispatcher.forward(request, response);
}

System.out.println("PRINT AFTER FORWARD");

%>

When running this page, it does the forwarding and then itcontinues to excute the rest of the page.

Does anyone have a clear explanation for this?

Thanks

Try:

if (i == 0) {
  dispatcher = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(response. encodeURL(url));
  dispatcher.forward(request, response);
  return;
}

It worked for me, but my code was different:

if (!sUser.validateForPage(form)==true)
{
    response.sendRedirect("login.jsp?loginFailed=false ");
    return;
}

Thanks,
Having a return there does work.