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[jsr340-experts] Re: SERVLET_SPEC-19

From: Rajiv Mordani <rajiv.mordani_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:44:51 -0800

On 2/12/13 1:39 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 11/02/2013 23:52, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
>> On 02/11/2013 10:31 PM, Rajiv Mordani wrote:
>>> Actually in thinking about this - since the listeners are exposed to
>>> developers, it will break backward compatibility adding these new
>>> methods to the listener. Not sure if I want to add these to the
>>> ServletRequestListener.
>> That doesn't sound like a very good idea indeed.
> ServletRequestDispatchListener?

Do we need one at all?

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>> Shouldn't the user simply use a filter with an appropriate dispatcher
>> mapping ?
> That raises an interesting question. Why do we have the
> ServletRequestListener interface at all?

Don't know the history behind this unfortunately. This pre-dates me
taking over the spec.

- Rajiv

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> Mark
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