GLORP News: category: Web http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/knight/blogView HREF Considered Harmful knight@acm.org Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:56:15 EST http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/images/why-small.png GLORP News http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/knight/blogView 50 81 en-us Alan Knight Copyright 2003 Alan Knight 2005-03-19T18:56:15-05:00 45.316667 -75.666667 Servlets and JSPs: Crooked Foundations http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/knight/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3256555436 Web Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:43:56 EST OK, it's not really GLORP related, but I do web stuff too and this caught my eye. Alan Green writes the following criticizing some aspects of servlets and JSPs. What caught my eye is that he agreed with many of the things I did in implementing the servlet/JSP compatible stuff in Web Toolkit. Specifically

  • multi-part requests. Yes, we do that, and I was surprised to have to make something up, as there wasn't a standard. I admit to not having dealt with multi-part responses.
  • SingleThreadModel as default. I don't quite go that far, but it's what I always use, and the doc encourages. Just calling it SingleThreadModel is pretty stupid to start with.
  • Servlets extending generic classes that are never used - dumped that, didn't seem important :-)
  • JSPs shouldn't be implemented as servlets. Amen. Ours are implemented as anonymous methods. Of course, Java can't do that.

OK, so we haven't done anything better about authentication. And there are lots of other areas where we fall down, but it's always nice to be agreed with :-)

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