----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You're going to search a long time. There was no spec for 2.0. Back > then things were far less formal. That explains why I was not able to find it. That ends my search. Thanks for the clarification. > If you want to know how things worked in 2.0, you could read the first > edition of my book "Java Servlet Programming" > (http://www.servlets.com/jservlet/). It covered 2.0 and was reviewed > for accuracy by the Sun lead. It may be as close to a 2.0 spec as you > can get. I do own a copy of your book which I have read. The point which I wanted to clarify is this: Servlets were orignally envisaged to be a server side programming API for almost all protocols and as a special case, support was provided in the API for HTTP. That is why we have the javax.servlet and javax.servlet.http package. I just wanted to know, at which stage did SUN realize that the architechture defined for Servlets is suitable only for HTTP, as this point is mentioned in the specification version 2.1 <quote from 2.1> The request-response paradigm is modeled on the behavior of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). </quote from 2.1> Regds, Gokul > > -jh- > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
