Thanks, but I still don't know where to look for documentation. Can you give me a link to pages describing Tomcat's pipeline and how to use valves?
\trond -----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: Filip Hanik - Dev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 00:05 Til: Tomcat Users List Emne: Re: request process flow and user profiling you have tons of options, Servlet filters (standard servlet API) lets you process requests. Using a MVC framework, such as struts, you can build your own controllers, hence do a bunch of stuff there Use Tomcat's pipeline by building valves Filip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trond Hersløv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:46 PM Subject: request process flow and user profiling > Hi, > I need to mainten a profile database with login, password, telephone numbers > and so on. I think I need to know how tomcat is handeling the request flow. > My goal is to achive the following (if there are better ways to it, please > let me know). > > Profile profile = request.getSessio().getProfile(); > if( ! profile.loggedIn){ > "the user is not logged in..." > else > telephoneNumber=profile.getNumber(); > } > > > I suppose there is a kind of pipeline of servlets that one after another is > processing the request object untill it finally is handeled by the end > servlet (e.g test.jsp) > If it doesn't allready exists, I would like to extend the session object > with to members: > > short: > public class mySession extends Session{ > Boolean loggedIn; > Profile profile; > } > > and put a class into the pipeline which, dependend on wether or not the user > is logged in, sets loggedIn=true and profile="som object containg profile > information"; > Does this allready exist as a functionallity in tomcat? I know other > servlet-containers (Dynamo from ATG) has this kind of profile handeling. > > Where can I find documentation on how tomcat is processing the request flow? > > Thanks in advance > trond > > > > > ********************************************************************** > This email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > ********************************************************************** > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
