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> API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Esposito, Francis (Exchange)
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 12:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Request & Response factories
>
>
> We are in the process of designing a servlet framework to deal with common
> issues of our business servlets, like authentication, authorization,
> logging, etc. In the design of the framework, we are considering a class
> hierarchy which provides these capabilities and also provides
> hook functions
> where subclasses can concentrate on the business logic. In designing this
> it seems that be able to replace the HttpRequest and HttpResponse objects
> with our own subclassed version would allow us to create a more intuitive
> design.
>
> Does the Servlet API provide the ability to supply factory classes for the
> creation of these objects?
>
>
I suggest you add features to HttpRequest (and HttpResponse) by composition
instead of inheritance.
To answer your original question: I don't believe so.
-s
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