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Re: [jetty-users] remove servlet API from jetty

Edgar,

"baseRequest" and "request" are not necessarily the same - if request
wrapping is used, then the "baseRequest" is the unwrapped version,
whilst "request" will be the wrapped version.

Jan

On 11 December 2014 at 20:15, Edgar Espina <espina.edgar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> thanks.
>
> today, a jetty handler is highly tied to the Servlet API:
>
> void handle(String target, Request baseRequest, HttpServletRequest request,
> HttpServletResponse response)
>
> not sure what else depends on Servlet API from jetty-server, but I wonder
> how hard should be to change this to:
>
> void handle(String target, Request baseRequest, Response response)
>
> I'm probably wrong but, isn't baseRequest and request the exactly same
> instance? and why use HttpServletResponse and not jetty version?
>
> Anyway, isn't a big deal but will be great if the Jetty API can evolve truly
> independently of Servlet API.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> having said that, the usage of the servlet-api from an implementation
>> perspective is largely isolated into the jetty-servlet artifact and
>> you can use the native jetty api's within jetty-server as you wish,
>> embedded or within the distribution by using the handlers directly or
>> whatever abstraction suits you.  Just look to the jetty-rewrite module
>> for inspiration on what can be done before you ever really enter into
>> the servlet implementation.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Jesse
>> --
>> jesse mcconnell
>> jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Joakim Erdfelt <joakim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Not likely to happen for the core server.
>> >
>> > However, it has happened in other Client side libraries of Jetty.
>> > The HTTP Client and WebSocket Client has no requirement on the Servlet
>> > API
>> > anymore.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Edgar Espina <espina.edgar@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >>   Just wondering how hard it is to remove the Servlet API from "core
>> >> jetty" and provide a Servlet container as a separated jar/module.
>> >>
>> >>  Sometimes I think Servlet API isn't good enough and require a long
>> >> time
>> >> to update/upgrade and most of the time I found Jetty API more clean and
>> >> powerful than Servlet.
>> >>
>> >>  Have you ever think on this? is it even possible?
>> >>
>> >>  Thanks
>> >> --
>> >> edgar
>> >>
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