Dear James,
>I have been on this servlets list for a long time ( probably a year or more )
>and it gets very few questions of any nature. Marty may or may not have been
>doing his homework, but he is saying he is trying to write a servlet.
Well I am sorry if my submission sounded like making fun of you.
This was not my intention. I know that this list is not really
a very busy one, and I really like to share knowledge about servlets
if there are specific questions.
Still I have made the experience that in cases were you are stuck,
you sometimes need to go back to the basics to see if you have missed
some fact there that is now giving you troubles.
>So if one should not talk about how to write any old servlet program here,
>what should one talk about on this list ?
>As mentioned, a file up-load program is completely listed in the
>"Java Servlet
>Programming" book and is one of its largest listings.
>And more importantly, where in your opinion is a list that we can
>freely discuss
>servlet application code ?
Again you are right, I barely saw any code discussed here. But I also looked
up the last submissions about file uploading again, there was not one
specific question about servlet code in them.
So sure this is a list I guess were servlet code can be discussed.
>In my opinion, many people are dissuaded from submitting anything,
>if what they
>read on the list is along the lines of:-
> but still I sometimes wonder how such things end up on this mailing list.<
>What I want is a list where we can discuss anything regrading servlet
>programming, even if it's a simple problem to most programmers.
Allright, well we can discuss things, thats what such lists are good
for I think. But please to prevent me and maybe others from
writing those sentences, be more specific in putting up questions.
I am happy that you told me your opinion and critics because I did
something wrong, but please believe me that my submission was not
a personal attack.
>
>btw, file up loading using a servlet, I do not consider to be trivial.
>Even the books program does not work in all cases, and I found the code
>unnecessarily broken up into seemingly random small routines all
>uncorrelated to
>the mentioned rfc1867 it proports to implement, which made reading and
>understanding it much more complicated ( and longer ) then it could have been.
I agree with you, and I also remember that I have changed something
in the code to get it running fine.
>After some work, I now have what I consider to be a simple and
>customisable file uploader,
>and I'd be happy to send it to anyone on this list who wants to use it.
Yes sure, I would even suggest that you submit it to the list, it would
be a good start to raise the quality of this list.
I have written myself some WebMail based upon servlets, and I am into
other things at the moment too, so if I can help out with code I will
do this for sure.
Regards
Dieter Wimberger
>Best regards
>James Burton
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