Isn't the possibility to inject servlet without having to modiify web.xml part of Servlet 3 ?
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Caleb James DeLisle < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to register servlets in the component manager and have them > called by their hint. > The oldcore struts servlet would be @Named("bin") and the rest servlet > would be @Named("rest") > > Reasons to want to do this: > * There are things which are currently impossible without a servlet, > things like REST, GWT and WebDav. > * If somebody has servlet code and they want to make it run in XWiki, this > is a real answer for them whereas "rewrite your app using XWiki actions" > isn't. > * Even if we had an Actions system which made it *possible* to implement > REST, GWT, and WebDav entry points, we would have to rewrite the universe > since all external libraries use Servlet. > * Web.xml is an eyesore, it's full of content which is the concern only of > a particular module, this could (mostly) be fixed by using injected > servlets. > > The big reason not to like it is because it could undermine the proposal > for Actions. > The JIRA issue for actions http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-4713 was > opened on January 1 of 2010. > It is stalled because nobody really knows how to make an abstraction which > represents Servlets or Portlets without any lost features. > If we make it easier for servlets to be used, we might begin down a > slippery slope toward everything being done using servlets and then we lose > portlet compatibility. > But the alternative as I see it is to block progress in this direction and > hope that somebody steps up to implement Actions which are fully compatible > with portlets and servlets. > > > WDYT? > Are there reasons not to do this which I missed? > > Caleb > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
