Hi Tony, Your approach (1) was the main theme behind Apache Turbine project. Have a look at it at http://www.jakarta.apache.org/turbine. The only difference is that the main handler servlet executes the screen requested and it can also initialize any service you might register and then you can take advantage of that service capabilities. Thanks Venkat --- t t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks > > I am new to servlet design and want to know if it is > better when designing a web application to have > > 1. All requests go to one main handler servlet which > redirects to the > required service, this service may be another > servlet > or web page. > > 2. Have requests go straight to the required > service, > ie have many > different servlets web pages which can be accessed > directly. > > Currently I like 1) since I can put some common code > in the main > handler server, ie > > logging > > security checks > > But I want to know if this is the way to go. Can > someone please give me > their thoughts on this matter or any links to > somewhere on the web > which deals with this issue. > > 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 ===== vsr __________________________________________________ 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
