The Servlet API doesn’t provide a direct way to delete a cookie in a Servlet application. If you want to delete a cookie you have to create a cookie that have the same name with the cookie that you want to delete and set the value to an empty string. You also need to set the max age of the cookie to 0. And then add this cookie to the servlet’s response object.

Let’s see the code example below:

package org.kodejava.example.servlet;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.Cookie;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;

@WebServlet(name = "DeleteCookieServlet", urlPatterns = "/deleteCookie")
public class DeleteCookieServlet extends HttpServlet {
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {

        //
        // To delete a cookie, we need to create a cookie that have the same
        // name with the cookie that we want to delete. We also need to set
        // the max age of the cookie to 0 and then add it to the Servlet's
        // response method.
        //
        Cookie cookie = new Cookie("username", "");
        cookie.setMaxAge(0);
        response.addCookie(cookie);
    }
}

The ServletContext.getContext(String uripath) enable us to access servlet context of another web application deployed on the same application server. A configuration need to be added to enable this feature.

In the example below we will forward the request from the current application to the /otherapp/hello.jsp page. We place a string in the request object attribute of the current application and going to show it in the hello.jsp page.

package org.kodejava.example.servlet;

import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;

@WebServlet(urlPatterns = {"/context"})
public class GetAnotherContextServlet extends HttpServlet {
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {

        //
        // Get ServletContext of another application on the same Servlet
        // container. This allow us to forward request to another application
        // on the same application server.
        //
        ServletContext ctx = request.getServletContext().getContext("/otherapp");

        //
        // Set a request attribute and forward to hello.jsp page on another 
        // context.
        //
        request.setAttribute("MESSAGE", "Hello There!");
        RequestDispatcher dispatcher = ctx.getRequestDispatcher("/hello.jsp");
        dispatcher.forward(request, response);
    }
}

To enable this feature in Tomcat we need to enable the crossContext attribute by setting the value to true, the default value is false. Update the server.xml file to add the following configuration.

...
<Context 
    path="/webapp" 
    debug="0" 
    reloadable="true" 
    crossContext="true"/>
...