Re: Proposal

[Jeff Trent]

define "do anything".  Your doGet()/doPost() continues to run.  The only caveat is that you can no longer i/o anything out to the response output stream.   -jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: Taylor Cowan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Proposal Is it possible to do anything from a servlet after a forward, i.e., I don't think the POST_RENDERED concept will work if struts is using a forward.   Taylor Cowan ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Trent To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ted Husted Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:21 AM Subject: Proposal New here ... so bare with me.   I'd like to propose the following enhancement to ActionForm:       public void addListener(ActionFormListener);     public void removeListener(ActionFormListener);    Here is the basics of ActionFormListener I'm interested in to start out with:       public abstract class ActionFormListener     {         public static final int ACTION_TYPE_PAGE_PRE_RENDERED = 1;         public static final int ACTION_TYPE_PAGE_POST_RENDERED = 2;           public abstract void actionFormNotify(int actionType, String context /* reserved for future use*/);     }     ---   These messages would be sent before and after the RequestDispatcher included or forwarded to the JSP page.   The primary reason I'm propsing this feature is to allocate / free (respectfully) scarce resources that I would like to be made available on the page that I do not want to serialize to transient members of my form.   thank you, jeffrey trent