This was certainly one of the original intents, I just hadn't ever managed to get around to it.
Dan Diephouse wrote: > I was wondering what people's thoughts were on decoupling the server module > from servlets a bit. This would allow abdera to be frontend by other things > a bit more easily (like a MINA based HTTP server). > > I think it would mainly involve two parts > 1. Adding a thin wrapper for HttpServletResponse and use that inside the > RequestHandler instead. We already have ResponseContext; it's likely that can be refactored for this purpose. > 2. Stop using Servlet Filters for things like security, and provide some > sort of mechanism to do that inside abdera. (Not sure if this is feasible or > not - I haven't looked into this side of things too much) > There is already the notion of a Subject Resolver. Currently the default is to get the Subject/Principal from the servlet request. An alternative Subject Resolver can be provided that pulls auth details from somewhere else. - James > Thoughts? > > - Dan >
