And based on that information I would say don't override service(). There
is also the inefficiency of maintenance of such overriden methods by persons
not familiar with why it was done. I think the cleaner approach is leaving
service alone - regardless of what your Weblogic instructor told you.
Dan
> ----------
> From: Craig McClanahan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: Craig McClanahan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 10:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: doPost versus doGet - DESIGN DECISION???
>
> Nanduri Amarnath wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys,
> > I recently had WebLogic training and this Instructor said that
> instead of
> > using the
> > doGet() (or) the doPost() method, over-write the service() method. He
> says that
> > if you use either a
> > doGet() (or) doPost() method, the WebServer has to do a POLYMORPHIC
> lookup on
> > these methods in the
> > service() method. This will lead to a little bit of in-efficiency.
> Instead if
> > you over-write the service() method, there
> > won't be any polymorphic lookup. I argued with him that the Java
> Servlet
> > specs..tell us not to over-write the
> > service() method, but to no avail . Any suggestions - comments welcome.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Amar..
> >
>
> Overriding the service() method is certainly legal Java code. However,
> doing so
> means you give up *all* of the default processing that
> HttpServlet.service() does.
> Among other things, that includes:
>
> * Dispatching requests based on the HTTP method that
> was requested, including rejecting those that are not
> supported by this servlet.
>
> * Handling the "If-Modified-Since" header and calling your
> getLastModified() method. These techniques are used
> to avoid re-downloading a response that has not been
> changed.
>
> * Handling the HEAD request transparently (returns just
> the HTTP headers instead of the entire body.
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
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