RE: JSP?

Well, yes and no. It depends.

If you use "forward", then the URL displayed in the browser's address bar will 
be the URL of the servlet originally requested, because the browser doesn't 
know that you forwarded to a JSP. Whereas if you use "redirect", you actually 
ask the browser to request the JSP itself, and therefore it changes the address 
bar to display the URL of the JSP.

The side effect of "redirect" is that the user can bookmark your JSP, and 
subsequently (maybe in a different session next week) go directly to the JSP 
without running your servlet first. I didn't follow the bit about inducing 
anchors, but if the servlet is required for initialization of the JSP then you 
don't want people to bookmark the JSP and jump directly to it. That might mean 
you use "forward" but make the servlet more intelligent, so that it doesn't 
redo long-running initializations. Depends on your design.

Regards
PC2

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Could it be the forward?  Should I be using a redirect instead?

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Why is it that when I refresh what I think is supposed to be a page, my 
servlet gets refreshed too that loaded the page?  ie:
LoadStreets does this:
                        getServletConfig()
                                .getServletContext()
                                .getRequestDispatcher("schedule_left.jsp")
                                .forward(req, resp);
yet if I click on the properties for schedule_left.jsp or view source it's 


        http://cpu913.secure.city.st-johns.nf.ca:9080/bulk/LoadStreet
when I think it should be:
 http://cpu913.secure.city.st-johns.nf.ca:9080/bulk/schedule_left.jsp.
If I click on a select box that I have for quicklinks, it refreshes the 
page as:
 http://cpu913.secure.city.st-johns.nf.ca:9080/bulk/schedule_left.jsp#C
Is there something I'm doing wrong to have the browser thinking I'm in 
LoadStreet when I'm actually in schedule_left.jsp?  It's become a 
performance issue for me cause I have anchors on the page that when the 
anchors are first induced, the page reloads, but once the properties of 
the page are the page, it's fine.  Please help and thanks.