Hi all, Starting from this discussion thread I created SLING-28 (Simplify the Sling (aka Component) API, [1]) to start discussion non some real flesh to the bone.
Please comment. Thanks. Regards Felix [1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-28 Am Freitag, den 28.09.2007, 14:23 +0200 schrieb Carsten Ziegeler: > I think we can further simplify our component api and base more on the > well-known servlet-api. > > ComponentRequestDispatch > > I think we can just remove this one and directly use the > RequestDispatcher interface. The implementation we provide can inspect > the passed request object - if its a ComponentRequest it might adds a > special handling for that. > > ComponentContext > > If we remove the ComponentRequestDispatcher there is no need for an own > ComponentContext anymore, and we can directly use the ServletContext. > > ComponentSession > > If we remove the ComponentContext, we can also directly use the servlet > Session object. Currently the ComponentSession has some methods for > handling component private session data. We could move this into an > utility class (like the ComponentSessionUtil) - I think session data and > especially component private session data will be rarely used, so > there shouldn't be a problem in moving this to an utility class. > > WDYT? > > Carsten > >
