Not if I want any control over how they're served up, when they're
served up, and who they're served up to. But forget about that, it's
not important. Making an image proxy is a much better example, for
thumbnails and whatnot.

On 8/5/05, Jonathan Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> well, if you just want to serve up files you could put them in your web
> app folder, right?
> the big issue we've both run into is when you want to serve up resources
> that can't be
> stored in your web app folder.
> 
> Phil Kulak wrote:
> 
> >Okay, I see what you mean. I had that exact same requirement recently.
> >I believe it was discussed on here as well. Right now I'm using a
> >Spring controller to serve up files dynamically. I'm probably going to
> >have to make a photo proxy too (as you mention), and it would be very
> >nice if I could stay in Wicket to do it. I'm definatly +1 on this.
> >
> >And no, Axis is NOT the way to go for this kind of thing. I didn't
> >really understand your requirements there.
> >
> >On 8/5/05, Jonathan Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>in fact, i think the total change would be this:
> >>
> >>    protected boolean onCustomResource()
> >>    {
> >>       return false;
> >>    }
> >>
> >>    protected final boolean parseRequest()
> >>    {
> >>        // Try different methods of parsing and dispatching the request
> >>
> >>        if (onCustomResource() || callDispatchedComponentListener())
> >>        {
> >>            // if it is, we don't need to update the cluster, etc, and
> >>return false
> >>        }
> >>
> >>       ...
> >>
> >>that would allow users to implement any kind of alternative resource
> >>using a URL
> >>format of their own devising.  i could see this being a lot more
> >>efficient for certain
> >>things...  like if you had a photo site, you could implement a custom
> >>resource handler
> >>that turned every http://<site>/app/photo/<id> into the right photo,
> >>avoiding wicket
> >>image component overhead for each photo on the site.  if there are
> >>millions of photos
> >>it might be worth it.
> >>
> >>Phil Kulak wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I think integration with Apache Axis would be the way to go here.
> >>>
> >>>On 8/5/05, Jonathan Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>i want to be able to do non-html client/server stuff over http using
> >>>>wicket.  this is
> >>>>especially useful in having a java applet talk to its originating server
> >>>>in the presence
> >>>>of firewalls that block everything but port 80.
> >>>>
> >>>>in particular i want to send simple representations of database objects
> >>>>and binary
> >>>>files pulled out of a database back and forth.
> >>>>
> >>>>wicket is /almost/ all set up to do that except that there is no URL
> >>>>syntax for it yet.
> >>>>
> >>>>one way we could enable a problem like this to be solved would be to
> >>>>remove the
> >>>>final keyword from the parseRequest() method in WebRequestCycle.java.  
> >>>>this
> >>>>would permit users to do their own request parsing to solve problems
> >>>>like this.
> >>>>
> >>>>but the choice we make here is whether we want to open this up or
> >>>>instead make
> >>>>a specific solution to the particular problem of getting and setting
> >>>>data over http
> >>>>(which is likely to be a problem for others).
> >>>>
> >>>>thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>>      jon
> >>>>
> >>>>
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