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[jsr340-experts] Re: SERVLET_SPEC-19

From: Rémy Maucherat <rmaucher_at_redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:48:09 +0100

On 02/12/2013 10:39 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> That raises an interesting question. Why do we have the
> ServletRequestListener interface at all?
IMO this is different. The events are for going in and out of a webapp
context (during either the initial invocation or with a cross context
operation, for example, to set some sort of webapp related thread
local), and are much harder to replicate with a filter in addition to
being less accurate.

Rémy