[Webware-discuss] Web pages as objects

[Winston W. <st...@ob...>]

I generally really like Webware and Cheetah--it's simple and fast and 
easy to work with.  But one thing keeps bugging me.  I think of my web 
pages as a bunch of objects which they are--a bunch of servlet objects. 
  So it should be easy to access my web page servlet objects as a graph. 
  I want to be able to traverse from my current page back up to the root 
object, find this page's siblings, etc.  But for some reason I cannot 
find a simple way of doing this.  The main problem is the difficulty of 
calling methods on servlets.  You have to use callMethodOfServlet(), 
and that does not work with Cheetah templates.  I am pursuing that on 
the Cheetah list separately, but I wonder, would it be possible to 
eliminate the need for callMethodOfServlet()?  CherryPy does a very 
cool thing where every page is just a class or method that returns a 
string.  The string contains the HTML that becomes the page.   Simple 
yet gets the job done.  Could we simplify Webware somehow in that 
direction?

-winston

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