why do portlets inherit from servlets?

[Jason Novotny]

Hi,

I've been looking at IBM's Portlet API in which portlets inherit from servlets-- I would like to get some technical reasons for why this is a good or bad idea. For one thing it seems performance might be slower since portlets would be invoked presumably using RequestDispatcher.include() methods rather than using a portlet object instance. Another thing is that portlets would be managed by the servlet container such as classloading, whereas if I have portlets as independent objects I could use my own classloading mechanisms to reload them without restarting the servlet container.
Any comments and information is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Jason


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