Actually I didn't refactor Page because I thought it was too heavy, I kept at least 90% of it unchanged, and in fact added to it. I changed it because I wanted to use XML/XSLT to produce my output.
I do agree that a "lower-level" extension point would be useful and more inline with OO design. I guess stripping out the HTML specific stuff would be a good starting point. - Aaron Switzer On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 14:40, Kyle VanderBeek wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:55:41AM -0400, Aaron Switzer wrote: > [snip] > > ...so I took Page and cut out what I didn't need > > and added a couple of things. I use my version of Page as the > > super-class for all of my servlets. > > Forgot to mention: doesn't this sentence scream to you that a > refactoring and creation of a new parent class should be done? I read > this as "Page is too heavyweight so I had to ignore good OO design > concepts and created a new class with lots of duplicate code." > > I think this situation is common, and we need a better extension point ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Webware-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-devel