Question

When I’m done processing in a servlet, and the result is valid, then I need to redirect the response to another JSP page, say welcome.jsp in web content folder. How can I do it?

For example:

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    try {

         // Some processing code here ...

         // How do I redirect to another JSP here when I'm ready?

    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new ServletException(e);
    }
}

Answer 1

Look at the HttpServletResponse#sendRedirect(String location) method.

Use it as:

response.sendRedirect(request.getContextPath() + "/welcome.jsp")

Alternatively, look at HttpServletResponse#setHeader(String name, String value) method.

The redirection is set by adding the location header:

response.setHeader("Location", request.getContextPath() + "/welcome.jsp");