Milt,
I didn't mean to turn this into a flame war. I think the Servlet API is
great. That doesn't mean it's perfect though. This is a case where it could
have been done better, and it could still be improved.
Geoff
-----Original Message-----
From: Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Servlet Interest List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Servlet API
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Date: Saturday, 17 July 1999 2:15
Subject: Re: Getting a session by ID?
>On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Geoff Soutter wrote:
>
>> Hi there Craig,
>>
>> I've been trying to do a similar kind of thing. Unfortunately the
>> APIs were deprecated AND DISABLED without warning when they went
>> from Servlet API 2.0 to 2.1. Which is pretty awful for anyone using
>> those API's. Apparently they were a security risk, but they have
>> legitimate uses as well which the Servlet API team decided to
>> ignore. :-(
>[ ... ]
>
>Servlets and the JSDK are a relatively young technology (despite how
>fast things move these days :-). They're trying to improve things, by
>making them cleaner and more secure, better organized, and with more
>functionality. I think they are doing a pretty good job of this,
>especially considering some of the latest talk of where things are
>heading, and comparing it to where things were back with JSDK 1.0 and
>2.0. Yes, it's a shame some functionality was removed, making things
>backwards-incompatible, but that is the price you have to pay
>sometimes. Justifying something that is a security risk as having
>"legitimate uses as well" is not very compelling, especially when
>there are alternate ways to do most/all you could've done with the
>functionality that was dropped (which is the case, as far as I can
>tell).
>
>Milt Epstein
>Research Programmer
>Software/Systems Development Group
>Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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