Servlet Request Object

What is difference b/w WITH ServletRequest Object:................RequestDispatcher rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher( "/servlet/XYZServlet"); rd.forward(request, response);with ServletContext Object:.......... RequestDispatcher rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher( "/servlet/XYZServlet"); rd.forward(request, response);what is difference b/w these two objects?which one is better or advatageous?any help would be appreciated.with regards,santh

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Sep 13th, 2006
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Spoorthi

Sep 16th, 2006

If we use ServletRequest object then we have to give only the servlet name.
For ServletContext object we have to give the relative path i.e, in a context we have more than servlet instances. so we have to give the path from context level.

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Oct 31st, 2006

In case of ServletRequest, we provide the path relative to http request while in the case of ServletContext we provide path relative to root of context.