Java HotSpot Virtual Machine

Dear everyone,

I wish to forward a request from a servlet to to an HTML page. My codes look like this:

RequestDispatcher rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher ("test.html");
rd.forward(req, resp);

This seems to work as long as the HTML file is within the same root as that of the servlet.

I was wondering if there was a way to forward it to an absolute URL? If I can't use getRequestDispatcher() for the URL, is there an alternative for implementing this?

Thanks a lot!
George