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From: "cyril vidal" <cyr.vidal@wanadoo.fr>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: getContext returns null!
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:49:28 +0100
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Hi,

I just would like to get a reference to the ServletContext of another =
web application as the current one, to get a RequestDispatcher object.

I know that the path should begin with / and that it is interpreted =
relative to the server's document root .

So i'm in a web application context and would like to get the context of =
c:\tomcat\webapps\tutobean application.

I've written the following code:

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse rep)

throws ServletException, IOException {

ServletContext currentSC =3D getServletContext(); //reference to the =
current ServletContext

ServletContext distantSC =3D currentSC.getContext("/tutobean"); =
//reference to the ServletContext of tutobean webappl, corresponding to =
http://localhost:8080/tutobean.

distantSC.getRequestDispatcher("/index.html").forward(req,rep); =
//NullPOinterException here because distantSC is null!!!


What's wrong in my code?

Thanks for your response,

Regards,

Cyril.

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