One standard way is to create your own request handler objects and put them in a hash table with the request name/type as the key. Or, put the objects in an array sorted by the request name/type and do a binary search to find the right one. -----Original Message----- From: t t [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 6:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Servlet Design Question-Want to get rid of massive if/else block Hi Folks I have just started writting Servlets and want advice on how to write a handler for all incoming requests. At the moment I have all requests going to the same servlet. This servlet grabs a hidden variable which says which page the client is requesting, ie requestPage=mainMenu the servlet then looks at this variable in a big if/else block and determines what the user wants to do and then calls the appropriate handler for this request. This looks messy to me and I want to know how other people tackle the problem. Can someone please give me some insight into other ways of writting this main handler. Cheers Tony __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
