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Would like to read the crits of Wilkins. Search engines are not helping, do you have a link? Jetty has continuations per Servlet 3.0 spec.: https://www.eclipse
by eternalban 6y ago
Would like to read the crits of Wilkins. Search engines are not helping, do you have a link?
Jetty has continuations per Servlet 3.0 spec.: https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/continuations.html https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/continua...
> - No clear separation between the protocol concerns and the application concerns.
Waiting for the link to see the details of this conclusion. In the interim, "application concerns" are addressable via https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/ServletCo...
> - Full Servlet Web containers are overkill for many applications.
This is true. Servlets are clearly part of the Component Oriented Distributed Middleware architectural vision of Sun Microsystems' architects circa late 90s. A beautiful component oriented architecture, imho, but yes, too overblown for your basic web-apps.
> My design fixes all of them and adds many features:
I'll take a look. I don't think (per above) that your solution is really demonstrating a short-coming in the design of Servlets. You have entirely distinct design goals that merely share a network protocol in common.
- eternalban 6y agop.s. so here is an example of a J2EE startup back in ancient days. I remember interviewing with these guys in Boston. They were dreaming of the future "Component Market" and clearly attempting to execute on Sun's vision. [Sold to BEA and now Oracle] People either don't remember, or never understood, why Sun created JEE. (And apparently, neither did the execs in Sun who completely blew it.) https://web.archive.org/web/19990417094359/http://www.theorycenter.com/home/home.htm https://web.archive.org/web/19990417094359/http://www.theory...
- bullen 6y agohttps://webtide.com/servlets-must-die-slowly/ https://webtide.com/servlets-must-die-slowly/ No comments there, but you can read about his probable contributions to the continuations API in later posts maybe? Sure we all try to implement HTTP the best we can, the difference is how fast and efficiently we do it.
- eternalban 6y agoThanks for the link!