If you have not looked at Struts - do consider it. It lets you put the
mappings externally in a configuration file, where in your servlet can
forward to mappings, which are identified by a string. The servlet (an
action class in Struts terminology) will produce a deterministic number
of outbound flows, which can be configured in struts-config.xml and the
Struts framework will take care of forwarding/redirecting the requests.

-cheers,
Manish

I do exactly that throughout my website, www.scja.com

If you navigate around, you'll see the content link is appened to the
url. Just hover over a link. Then, the page you call, the controlling
page, extracts the link name, and includes the page.

It's functional.

-Cameron McKenzie
www.scja.com www.mcnz.com www.pulpjava.com

You can add the following type of URLs as a href in your redirecting file:

<a href="Controller/RequestType1">Handle request type 1</a>
<a href="Controller/RequestType2">Handle request type 2</a>

In your deployment descriptor you then define a mapping for this servlet:

<servlet>
    <display-name>ControllerServlet</display-name>
    <servlet-name>ControllerServlet</servlet-name>
    <sevlet-class>yourpackage.ControllerServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>ControllerServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/Controller/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

The url-pattern tells the application server to forward requests
directed to an url of the form /Controller/* to the ControllerServlet.

Now, when handling the request in the ControllerServlet you can do the
following:

String requestType = request.getPathInfo().substring(1);

This returns RequestType1 or RequestType2 depending on which link you
clicked (because getPathInfo() returns a String /RequestType1 or
RequestType2, hence, substring(1) drops the /).
You can use these values to decide which view you redirect to after
changing the model.

Hope this helps.

Chris