Or someone might write components/pages that generate xml and are xslt transformed into a ui. Or voice xml components. And im sure there are a thousand more reasons.
Tapestry takes an nice approach that allows easy integration of things like this. You can basically write your own service providers (in this case customized webrequest/webresponse pair) and register them with the framework. When your url contains a service=<service-name> tapestry uses your service to process the request and produce the response. -Igor > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Philip A. Chapman > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 1:03 PM > To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] Re: Problem > > Gili wrote: > > > > Jon, I think you need to give more information about > your actual > > requirements. As I already mentioned, I have a simple servlet which > > serves up images by ID and the ID is passed in via a HTTP POST > > (although originally I had it going via a HTTP GET and you > could do this too). > > > > I don't see why one would need access to the Wicket session...? > > Again, it isn't clear to me what your actual requirements > are. If you > > simply have a client-server architecture, why not code up all your > > server components as servlets to send image data, etc? > > > > This is not Jon's argument, I do not believe, but an argument > that I think is valid. Let us say that your images served up > by your servlet are generated charts, such as the relative > wages of employees. You wouldn't want just anyone to be able > to access this data unless they had authenticated > successfully. In order to determine whether they have > authenticated, you would need to check the wicket session. > > -- > Philip A. Chapman > > Application Development: > Java, Visual Basic (MCP), PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL Linux, > Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user