Question

I’m using IBM WebSphere as my servlet container. My application has several servlets and Java classes. My intent is to call one of those servlets directly from a Java class. Doing some research I figured out that is possible to use the RequestDispatcher interface to achieve this. But it is necessary to pass the objects ServletRequest and ServletResponse as arguments to the method forward(). There is some way to bypass this safely and “nicely”? By “nicely” I meant to say preserving good programming and design patterns.

Answer 1

It would help to get some more background as to why you are trying to do this. I am assuming you want to invoke some piece of business logic in the servlet. This is a sign that the application is poorly designed.

Are you familiar with MVC architecture? If your “model” code was loosely coupled, you would be able to call it directly.