[Springframework-developer] Portlet MVC Question

[Cris J. H. <hol...@un...>]

I've done a lot of experimenting with the Portlet support in the MVC 
packages of the sandbox (I guess informally being called Spring Portlet 
MVC) through the course of doing other things over the last few months.

The one thing that has bugged me more then any other thing is why are 
the two methods of PortletController both called "handleRequest" ?
These two methods roughly equate to the action and render methods of the 
  Portlet contract.  It seems the current trend in the industry to to 
avoid overloading, especially where it's confusing.  And in this case we 
have two very different activities going by the same name.  This seems 
wrong.

I understand the Web MVC (intended for servlet based applications) has a 
single 'handleRequest' method.  So the desire to use the same name might 
have come from there.  But, a servlet based environment does not define 
two distinct behaviors of 'action' and 'render'.

I know this code has been out there for a while and many people have 
built applications around it.  But is this something we should look at 
changing?  It would seem a framework like Spring, which exists to help 
people follow best practices like IoC, should itself, follow good 
practices like avoiding confusing use of overloading (see Effective 
Java, Item 26, page 130).

---- Cris J H

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