Re: [Bodington-developers] Plugin interface

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Jon Maber wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I'd call it a portlet.  Are we starting to reinvent JSR168 here?
>>
>>         - Peter
>>  
>>
> 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.

RequestDispatcher.include() unless used carefully can lead to very
fragile and difficult to follow routes through the code.

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