jsp页面request.getAttribute("employeeList") 为null

search.jsp代码

<% List<Employee> employees =(List<Employee>)request.getAttribute("employeeList"); %>

servlet代码

public void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
		response.setContentType("text/html;charset=utf-8");
		PrintWriter pw = response.getWriter();
		try {
			EmployeeDAO dao = (EmployeeDAO) Factory.getInstance("EmployeeDAO");			
			List<Employee> employees = dao.findAll();
			//结果传到jsp
			request.setAttribute("employeeList", employees);
			List<Employee> list =(List<Employee>)request.getAttribute("employeeList");
//			System.out.println(list.size());
//			response.sendRedirect("search.jsp");
			request.getRequestDispatcher("search.jsp").forward(request,response);
		} catch (Exception e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}

	}

问题的原因是，之前采用了sendRedirect进行重定向，而应该采用
request.getRequestDispatcher("search.jsp").forward(request,response);
查了一下这两者的区别：
request.getRequestDispatcher()是请求转发，前后页面共享一个request ;
response.sendRedirect()是重新定向，前后页面不是一个request

转自：http://www.cnblogs.com/phpzxh/archive/2010/02/01/1661137.html