Please forgive my ignorance if this is a well-known thing. I went to the Struts BOF and I went to the "Filters can replace Servlets in MVC" BOF. I see the concept, but I just don't see how filters are "better" than servlets for MVC. Is there documentation or discussion about this idea somewhere? I first heard of it at JavaOne. Is it "pre-supposed" that Struts will someday become filter-based or did I misunderstand that? I see how filters are a good frontend to MVC to make sure requests don't circumvent your controller, but it doesn't make sense to me that a filter would "be" the controller. What are the community's thoughts on that?
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:49 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: Re: Servlet 2.3 filter > > > > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Struts-dev Newsgroup wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:25:01 -0800 > > From: Struts-dev Newsgroup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Servlet 2.3 filter > > > > Subject: Servlet 2.3 filter > > From: Vic Cekvenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > === > > Most containers now are Servlet 2.3 compliant, and there > are questions > > on user lists on filters with Action. > > So a non comitter request to make action a filter and > Struts Servlet 2.3 > > bound. (a question asked at JavaOne at Struts SIG) > > > > Those of you at the Struts BOF will recall that we did a poll of those > present (several hundred folks). Over half those who answered were > running systems based on Servlet 2.2 (and/or J2EE 1.2), and > those people > would not be able to use Struts if it required Servlet 2.3. > > My takeaway from this was that, for the next few months at > least, it's a > little premature to talk about requiring Servlet 2.3 in a production > release of Struts. However, it might well be time to start > talking about > a "Struts 2.0" that is based on this, plus letting us take > advantage of > other 2.3-based things like the JSP Standard Tag Library and > JavaServer > Faces when they are released. > > > Vic > > > > Craig > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
