Hi, I have an existing PHP application I want to port to Java servlets (I am an experienced programmer, but new to Java servlets). It is basically an admin interface for managing user accounts for community sites. To keep this as flexible and true to a MVC-pattern as possible, I figured I'd have my servlet generate a custom response object from a custom request object. I then would write filters to translate the request parameters to my custom request and on the way back, create the actual output from my custom response. This way I should be able to make the same app usable by different clients by just throwing in another filter (required client types at the moment are (X)HTML, Flash/XML, and Flash/FlashRemoting).
>From what I understand, this is one of the main uses of filters. My question is, how do I pass the custom request/response objects between my filters and the servlet? I guess it involves HttpServletResponseWrappers, but I can't figure out how (you can overwrite getWriter() and such, but that is of no use to me). What I would need is to attach my result as a generic object to the HttpServletResponse, and have my filter retrieve it, format it, and write the response to the client. I can do the above by having my servlet output XML, and then having my filter transform the XML to the actual output. But this seems to be unnecessary overhead to me (unless I want to use XSLT anyway, which I don't). Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
