Hi Andrew

On Dec 18, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Andrew Akira Toulouse wrote:

> Apologies for the late reply; it seems that my email wasn't included
> in the return email.
> 
> Play's servlet wrapper is a compatibility layer for when it is
> deployed from tomcat. However, the primary mode of use is as a
> stand-alone server, which allows it to do nifty things such as
> websockets and asynchronous request handling (not unlike Node.js only
> built on top of a more...rigorous language). So no, this isn't an
> option, unfortunately. It's somewhat of an unconventional choice - so
> far - as far as Java web applications go, but it has strong support
> from Typesafe and Scala community support is growing. It's also in use
> at Klout, supported on Heroku, and seems on a trajectory that doesn't
> end in obscurity. Unfortunately, by eschewing use of the servlet
> abstraction, it does exclude itself from useful modules tailored to
> the Servlet API.
> 
> Is amber modularized enough that compatibility for a non-Servlet API
> request/response object could be written in without too much trouble?

as long as I can see at the moment a log of method signatures have a dependency 
on Servlet API.
If I do not completely wrong (here on of the committer might help) Amber-3 [0] 
might help here if applied also to Amber Oauth2 project.

Regards

Antonio

[0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBER-3

> 
>> Hi Andrew,
>> 
>> starting from point I do not know Play at all wouldn't be easier to use the 
>> SERVLET_REQ provided
>> from the framework ? [0]
>> 
>> Apologies if I am totally wrong, just my 2 cents
>> 
>> [0] 
>> http://www.playframework.org/documentation/api/1.2.4/play%2Fserver%2FServletWrapper.html

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