Need help with a simple jsp and servlet problem

**javacoder_APAC** · March 19th, 2011, 08:42 AM

Hello Java Gurus,

I am working on a simple web project and need help with a problem.

The index.jsp has 2 iframe components, where the src attribute for each iframe references to a separate jsp page (so the src for iframe1 is iframe1.jsp and for iframe2, its iframe2.jsp)

Now, the iframe2.jsp has a search text and a submit button. On entering a search text, the control goes to a servlet, which then runs some logic and sends an object to be displayed in iframe1.

In the servlet, I have used RequestDispatcher to forward the response to iframe1. Now, the problem here is that the response is getting populated in iframe2.jsp itself (from where the initial request originated). I need to response to go to iframe1.jsp

Have verified all the links and paths in the code, so there isn’t any typo anywhere. Just wondering what might be wrong here. Is RequestDispatcher not the right way to send control to another jsp? If yes, what is the other alternative?

Please advise.

Thanks,
B.S.S

**javacoder_APAC** · March 19th, 2011, 08:47 AM

Here are the code snippets

First the index.jsp - the page that contains the 2 iframes

HTML Code:

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Hello World!</h1>
        <iframe name="frame1" id="frame1" src="frame1/frame1.jsp"/>
        <iframe name="frame2" id="frame2" src="frame2/frame2.jsp"/>
    </body>
</html>

next,frame1.jsp which is put in a folder named frame1.

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <% if (request.getAttribute("data") == null) {%>
    <body>
        <h1>Hello World! from Frame1</h1>
    </body>
    <% } else if (request.getAttribute("data").toString().length() != 0) { %>
    <h1>Hello World! from Frame1 <%=request.getAttribute("data")%></h1>
    <% } %>
</html>

then we have frame2.jsp which is put in a folder named frame2.

HTML Code:

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <form action="/Testing/Servlet">
    <body>
        <h1>Hello World from Frame2</h1>
        <input type="submit" name="submit" />
    </body>
    </form>
</html>

and finally the servlet

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 
public class Servlet extends HttpServlet {
    protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
        response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        String message = "Responding from servlet";
        try {
            request.setAttribute("data",message);
            RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("/frame1/frame1.jsp");
            if (dispatcher != null){
            dispatcher.forward(request, response);
            }
        } finally { 
            out.close();
        }
    } 
 
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
        processRequest(request, response);
    } 
 
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
        processRequest(request, response);
    }
 
    public String getServletInfo() {
        return "Short description";
    }// </editor-fold>
}

Instead of frame1 getting the message from the servlet, the frame2 is always getting populated with this message.

Please advise.

Thanks,
B.S.S

**copeg** · March 19th, 2011, 10:09 AM

Moved to Java Servlet

RequestDispatcher forwards the responds to the client - in this case the client is the form submission frame (frame2). You will need some way to let the other frame know (I don't deal with frames often so won't try and advise beyond that).

**javacoder_APAC** · March 22nd, 2011, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by copeg

Moved to Java Servlet

RequestDispatcher forwards the responds to the client - in this case the client is the form submission frame (frame2). You will need some way to let the other frame know (I don't deal with frames often so won't try and advise beyond that).

Anybody has any ideas on the same? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

B.S.S

**Rituparna** · March 23rd, 2011, 08:32 AM

try using response.sendRedirect("/frame1/frame1.jsp"); instead of RequestDispatcher.
I hadn't deal with frames.
may this will solve ur problem.
best of luck.

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