Re: Tapestry embedding into Merlin?

Timothy Bennett wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
> 
  > To answer that, I'm going to have to read up on Tapestry and get back
> with you.
> 

Picking this quote out of the Tapestry User's Guide:

[quote]
This can take some getting used to. You don't write servlets in 
Tapestry, you write listener methods. You don't build URLs to servlets 
either -- you use an existing component (such as DirectLink) and 
configure its listener parameter to invoke your listener method. What 
does a listener method do? It interacts with backend systems (often, 
stateless session EJBs) or does other bookkeeping related to the request 
and selects a new page to provide a response to the user ... basically, 
the core code at the center of a servlet.
[/quote]

Hmmmmm... this sound strangely similar to what we are trying to do with 
the HTTP facility for Merlin.  The facility starts up a Jetty web server 
and then provides the plumbing to route HTTP requests to a special 
Avalon-Merlin *listener* components which happen to be a servlet.  These 
listener components have access to the merlin service manager, and thus 
can interact with any other component deployed in the merlin component 
(back-end system).  The components that the facility hands the request 
off to can do anything you want with the request and response.

Continuing to read....