Servlet 3.0 and JSF 2.x Tip of the Day: JSF Forward to External Servlet in Different Context

I posted a previous postServlet 3.0 Tip: How Do I Get to Another Servlet Context? which demonstrates how to get to another context. This extends that discussion by showing how to forward a JSF request to the other context and have the servlet output the results. Here is the basic code to be called from the JSF page.

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Here is the method.

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Here is the servlet I called.

CrossAppServlet.java

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Success

Note: If you were going to pass it to JSF, you would need to remove the view state since the Faces Servlet receiving the values would result in a ViewExpiredException since this view state is not in the target Faces Servlet.