Why not just include <a> tags in your w1 webapp's pages whose href attributes point direct to URIs that begin "/w2app/" and vice-versa? I don't think you need to use dispatchers.
The docs for ServletContext#getContext (your line 1) say: "...The given path must be begin with "/", is interpreted relative to the server's document root and is matched against the context roots of other web applications hosted on this container. In a security conscious environment, the servlet container may return null for a given URL.". The spec says ServletContext#getContext "Returns: the ServletContext object that corresponds to the named URL, or null if either none exists or the container wishes to restrict this access." So: 1. Are you sure that your url begins with a "/" ? 2. If you are, the null indicates that there is a security constraint preventing access to the URL (or the url does not exist). This could be a standard TC rule preventing access between webapps. I don't know for sure, perhaps someone that knows more will chip in. > -----Original Message----- > From: Nihita Goel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday 27 October 2005 13:33 > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: How to share resources across two applications > > > Hi, > I have two applications running on the tomcat application server. > w1 - with context path "/w1app" > and w2 with context path "/w2app" > I wish to provide links in w1 displaying pages of w2. > > I have used this code in my HttpServlet class of w1 > > if /// some condition > > Servlet Context othercontext = > getServletContext().getContext("/w2app"); > (1) > RequestDispatcher rd = othercontext.getRequestDispatcher(url); (2) > rd.forward (request,response) (3) > > However - the it gives a NullPointerException at 1. > > I have been trying hard but without success.. > > Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
