Re: [Webwork-devel] Dispatcher as a Filter instead of a Servlet?

[Mike Cannon-B. <mi...@at...>]

From memory (of my heated discussion outside the BoF with Kevin Jones and
Greg Wilkins) it was decided that unless there is a specific reason to use a
filter, one should stick with a servlet. Or at least that's what I decided
out of it all ;)

A filter is really not that bad - but the issue comes with the chaining of
them. Building JIRA we had a lot of debugging to do in making sure our
filters (there are 5 filter mappings now) were in the right order on all
servers. For example SiteMesh and our Security & Login filters were having
problems working well together.

IMHO a filter is something cool to build (and should be done) but the
servlet should still be the 'default' option. Over time if people decide the
filter works well, we can deprecate the servlet somewhat.

My $0.02.

Cheers,
Mike

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On 16/5/02 10:06 PM, "Kjetil Paulsen" (kje...@mo...) penned the
words:

> Hi
> 
> Just remembered that we had this up for discussion during JavaOne..
> 
> Rickard, do you remember what our conclusion was?
> 
> Anyone else have a opinions on this? I know the Servlet 2.3 Filter session
> recommended this as a superior solution... can't remember his arguments
> though.
> 
> /kjetilhp
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