On Tue, 8 May 2001, Jerome Banks wrote:
>
> [snip]
> Also, I don't quite understand why Cactus needs to be run inside a
> WebServer like
> Tomcat. Why can't one create concrete representations of
> HttpServletRequest and
> HttpServletResponse, and use that ??? Am I missing something ???
>
It's not just the request and response objects that matter. Just to
continue using Struts as the example, it depends on a completely
functional implementation of the ServletConfig, ServletContext,
HttpSession, and RequestDispatcher APIs, plus a full implementation of JSP
pages (including custom tag support). Pretty soon you end up writing
your very own servlet container .... it's better to reuse what is already
there.
> thanks in advance ...
> --- jerome
>
>
>
Craig
