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by Brian McCallister.
Original Post: Servlets 2.5
Feed Title: Waste of Time
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Just read over
Jason Hunter's summary of the servlet 2.5 spec. Easiest way to
sum it up is to point out that the two things I wanted most got
punted for future consideration:
Programmatically log in a user: Right after a user registers with
a site, there's no way to inform the servlet environment about the
user's credentials without the user performing a traditional
login.
New Input/Output (NIO) support: It's possible NIO Channels would
be a more efficient way for servlets to communicate with clients.
To the first: I suspect the reason why the servlet spec doesn't let
you programatically log in -- it would be placing auth control
somewhere the spec wrter's don't trust, in the hand's of people
writing webapps. Pass-though auth is usually used when you need
trusted authorization to an untrusted system. Oops.
"It's possible NIO Channels would be a more efficient" -- ROFL. It
is possible, also, that the sum of two and two is four.
Sorry for griping, it is just there were two things that the EG said
they'd address which I really wanted to see addressed. Those
were them. Both were punted on. Instead we got annotations and
syntax sugar in web.xml. Syntax sugar ... in ... xml.
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