> Yes, calling super.service() will perform the conditional GET support, but
it
> will also do everything else it already does, including call your
> doGet()/doPost()/etc. method.
>
> If you call super.service() at the beginning of your override method, by
the
> time it returns, the request has been processed, and the response has been
> created. If you wait and call super.service() after you have already
prepared
> the response, the doGet()/doPost() method that is called will run into
> problems trying to acquire a ServletOutputStream or PrintWriter, because
you
> already grabbed them.
>
> What's left for your overriding service() method to do, unless all you
want is
> to count hits or something innocuous like that?
It's too obvious. A calling super method should be conditional. You also can
provide flags, which say should called doGet/doPost do something, or just
return control. But, I couldn't agree it requires some programming efforts,
when someethig is bad designed.
Dmitry.
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