Dispatching to a jsp file

[Richard Evans <rd...@webtrak.co.uk>]

I think this is a basic servlet API/Jsp question, but I am rather confused.

I have a servlet which needs to send a Jsp page back to the client.  The
servlet decides the location of the file dynamically.  Ideally I do not want
the Jsp files to be in the webroot because I don't want users to access them
directly.

I've looked at getRequestDispatcher but this takes a URI, not a file name.  Is
there any way to cause an arbitrary file somewhere to be read by the Jsp
engine and returned to the client?

Richard