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

[Maurice P. <Ma...@Vi...>]

On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 07:06  AM, Kjetil Paulsen wrote:

> 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.

IIRC, we were talking about filters while discussing how to support the 
JSTL.  Rickard suggested that we could use the dispatcher and a 
ServletRequestWrapper to allow JSTL access to the top level of the 
ValueStack.

Thinking about it afterward tho, I remembered that you could use 
ServletRequestWrappers with servlets as well as filters.

I'm not sure that there is any reason to implement the dispatcher as a 
filter instead of servlet.


-Maurice