[Winstone-devel] Mimic a web server

[Philippe P. <phi...@so...>]

Hi,

I have to mimic a Web server : no socket, no thread, just a container 
that reads a webapp (or several), and an entry point with, say, an input 
stream (and additional info expected that mocks the request) to analyse 
and dispatch to the right servlet (or perhaps just an instance of a web 
request), and that finally return a web response. Something very simple 
invokable in batch mode, no HTTP, no network.

Since the hard work is already done in Winstone, I wonder if you could 
give me some hints for doing this.

Today, I use the ServletUnit part of HttpUnit 
(http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/doc/servletunit-intro.html) but I had 
to produce very complex code with lots of ugly hacks to make it work 
correctly. Winstone is complete and reliable and I think better 
suitable. One important point is the ability to act on the engine (by 
getting context and session objects).

Thanks in advance for your advice.

-- 
Cordialement,

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