the servlet api has actually been around for 2+ years
and has experienced quite an uptake ... simple/clean/
powerful api. there are many real business systems running
on this stuff.
the jsdk and subsequent jswdk are the latest vehicles
for distribution of the servlet and jsp reference
implementations and as such carry with them some of
the new (and the occassionally deprecated) api's.
all in all, the servlet api is pretty solid and getting
better (j2ee, jakarta, etc).
hope this helps,
- james
Milt Epstein wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Geoff Soutter wrote:
>
> > Hi there Craig,
> >
> > I've been trying to do a similar kind of thing. Unfortunately the
> > APIs were deprecated AND DISABLED without warning when they went
> > from Servlet API 2.0 to 2.1. Which is pretty awful for anyone using
> > those API's. Apparently they were a security risk, but they have
> > legitimate uses as well which the Servlet API team decided to
> > ignore. :-(
> [ ... ]
>
> Servlets and the JSDK are a relatively young technology (despite how
> fast things move these days :-). They're trying to improve things, by
> making them cleaner and more secure, better organized, and with more
> functionality. I think they are doing a pretty good job of this,
> especially considering some of the latest talk of where things are
> heading, and comparing it to where things were back with JSDK 1.0 and
> 2.0. Yes, it's a shame some functionality was removed, making things
> backwards-incompatible, but that is the price you have to pay
> sometimes. Justifying something that is a security risk as having
> "legitimate uses as well" is not very compelling, especially when
> there are alternate ways to do most/all you could've done with the
> functionality that was dropped (which is the case, as far as I can
> tell).
>
> Milt Epstein
> Research Programmer
> Software/Systems Development Group
> Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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