On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Perrin Harkins wrote: > Bruce Eckel agrees with me in "Thinking in Java", but > he's going against common wisdom in the servlet world. > What I usually see suggested is to have your doGet() > method call doPost(), or have both call some other > private method. And that's the part that seems silly - > delegating the request to one of two methods that both > go to the same place.
fair enough. the main advantage of service() is to provide core handling for OPTIONS, TRACE, and HEAD, and default handling for PUT and DELETE, since most servlets won't directly support those. would you be happy if service() delegated to a single method for both POST and GET?
