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Calling Servlet from Servlets in Java

Vinay 02 Mar 2011 Java, servlets Views: 6,554 views
I gathered information from environment and sharing you this information with all.
When Ever you want to call any servlet from another servlet We can use two ways:A servlet can make an HTTP request of another servlet. Opening a connection to a URL
A servlet can call another servlets public methods directly, if the two servlets run within the same
server.
I will let you know the second way to calling the servlet. To call another servlets public methods directly,
you must:
You Should know the name of servlet that you want to call.
Acquire access to that servlets Servlet object
Calling the servlets public method
To get the object of servlet, use the ServletContext objects getServlet method. Get the ServletContext
object from the ServletConfig object stored in the Servlet object. An example should make this clear.
When the EmployeeDetail servlet calls the BookDB servlet, the EmployeeDetail servlet obtains the
EmployeeDB servlets Servlet object like this:
Once you have the servlet object, you can call any of that servlets public methods. For example, the
EmployeeDetail servlet calls the EmployeeDB servlets get getEmployeeDetail method:
You Should take care of the few things.If your servlet is following the singlethreadedModel interface then
your call violate that single threaded model. Then you should implement the first way..
public class EmployeeDetail extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet (HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException
{

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EmployeeDBdatabase = (EmployeeDB)
getServletConfig().getServletContext().getServlet(employeedB);
EmployeeDetail bd = database.getEmployeeDetails(empId);
...
}
}
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4 Responses to Calling Servlet from Servlets in Java

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Mirko
Mar 02, 2011
Why dont you use a RequestDispatcher?

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Pravin Jain
Mar 02, 2011
The method getServlet has long been deprecated for security reasons, and will not give direct
access to a Servlet, you may however use the getnamedDispatcher method to get a
RequestDispatcher and then forward to it.
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Ricky
Aug 16, 2011
A bit surpisred it seems to simple and yet useful.
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3.
Misterz
Mar 17, 2011
As already said, getServlet is deprecated, other than call in HTTP or using RequestDispatcher, that
are clean method of invocation, its possible to use the same aim of using public method, you can
use ServletContext
Example.
interface EmployDAO{
Employee findById(String id);

}
MyServlet implements EmployeeDAO{
init(){
getServletConfig()
.getServletContext()
.setAttribute(EMPL::DAO,this);
}
}
MyOtherServlet{
public void doGet (HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException

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EmployeeDAO dao = getServletConfig()

.getServletContext()
.getAttribute(EMPL::DAO);
Employee empl = dao.findById(request.getParameter(E_ID));

}
}
but i think its not so clean
BYE
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