Hey! You might look at the Design Pattern named Factory Method. What you would have is a "Service Factory" that passes back the required service object when passed the service name. Very OO, and powerful technique. I use it exclusively when I implement the Model View Control architecture. Search on the above key words for more information. This is NOT new stuff. Sans adieu, Danny Rubis t t wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Do you know anywhere on the web > where there is an example of this. Either a > article/tutorial or a *.java file I can download and > have a look at? > > Cheers > > Tony > > --- Duane Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One standard way is to create your own request > > handler objects and put them > > in a hash table with the request name/type as the > > key. Or, put the objects > > in > > an array sorted by the request name/type and do a > > binary search to find the > > right one. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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