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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:05:13+00:00

What’s the proper way to create a hyperlink in Spring+JSP? There must be a

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What’s the proper way to create a hyperlink in Spring+JSP? There must be a better way than just coding in the <a href='...'> tag. Take for example a page that displays people. The URL is people.htm. The corresponding controller gets people from the database and performs optional column sorting. The JSP might look like:

<table> <tr>   <td><a href='people.htm?sort=name'>Name</a></td>   <td><a href='people.htm?sort=age'>Age</a></td>   <td><a href='people.htm?sort=address'>Address</a></td> </tr> ...

This seems bad as the URL people.htm is hardcoded in the JSP. There should be a way to have Spring automatically build the <a> tag using the URL defined in servlet.xml.

Edit: Maybe I should be using a Spring form.

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  1. The only thing that comes to mind is the JSTL standard tag <c:url>. For example:

    <c:url var='thisURL' value='homer.jsp'>   <c:param name='iq' value='${homer.iq}'/>   <c:param name='checkAgainst' value='marge simpson'/> </c:url> <a href='<c:out value='${thisURL}'/>'>Next</a>

    Now this won’t get you servlet mapping or the like but nothing will. It’s not something you could really do programmatically (after all, a servlet can and usually does map to a range of URLs). But this will take care of escaping for you.

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