Communication between two web application in same server

Question

All,

I have 2 web applications, Web1 and Web2, deployed on my tomcat server. I want classes in Web1 to call methods on classes in Web2. One way to do this is using

Answer 1

Yes you can do it using javax.servlet.ServletContext and javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher API's. Here it is how it can be done from Web1:

ServletContext otherContext = servletContext.getContex("/Web2");
RequestDispatcher dispathcer = otherContext.getRequestDispatcher("/a/b.jsp");

dispatcher.forward(request, response);
//or
dispatcher.include(request, response);