Sylvain Wallez wrote: > Sorry, but I still fail to see how this changes anything. It makes it > easier to develop with Cocoon as using the standard servlet API rather > than with a "proprietary clone" eases the learning process and > facilitates the integration with 3rd-party libraries. But does it change > something for the internal code? I fail to see how. > We get rid off the whole o.a.c.environment package - and this is the another step to make the core cleaner. I can imagine a lot of changes based on this one making the internal handling of requests easier to understand and implement.
> I never said it doesn't make sense, rather the contrary. But there's a > difference IMO between "let's use the standard servlet API" and "let's > fire up a servlet engine to process a simple XML pipeline". > Sure, but see my latest response to Daniel showing some use cases where you need the whole servlet engine. And I of course web apps have their servlet engine running, so there is only the cli left. But starting jetty inside is really a small thing and totally transparent from a user pov. Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler - Open Source Group, S&N AG http://www.s-und-n.de http://www.osoco.org/weblogs/rael/