Re: [Bodington-developers] Plugin interface

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

Peter Crowther wrote:

>>From: Jon Maber
>>It is a servlet in the sense that it is invoked, gets 
>>information from a 
>>request object and outputs HTML via a response object. The 
>>only unusual 
>>feature is that it never outputs a whole page of HTML and is 
>>only used to insert output in the output of another servlet.
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>>
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>I'd call it a portlet.  Are we starting to reinvent JSR168 here?
>
>		- Peter
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>
No reinvention at all! That's my point.
Servlets have been able to call other servlets from way back and I think 
it's best to use something that is established functionality of the spec.