Re: ChangeLog ServletAPI update

well done for doing this.

I recently resigned from the Servlet API design team (due to technical
differences) so I'm not able to do this anymore.


Arnaud Vandyck <[email protected]> writes:

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> 2003-04-21  Arnaud Vandyck  <[email protected]>
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> 	* jsp/SkipPageException.java: added
> 
> 	* jsp/JspTagException.java (JspTagException): added two constructors.
> 
> 	* jsp/JspException.java (getRootCause): added. Also added two constructors.
> 
> 	* jsp/PageContext.java (include): IllegalArgumentException,
> 	SecurityException do not need to be in the signature, only in the
> 	documentation
> 	(forward): IllegalArgumentException, IllegalStateException,
> 	SecurityException do not need to be in the signature, only in the
> 	documentation.
> 	(include): String path, boolean flush: new in JSP 2.0
> 	(handlePageException): Exception: [javadoc] throws
> 	NullPointerException, SecurityException
> 	(handlePageException): Throwable: [javadoc] throws
> 	NullPointerException, SecurityException
> 	(popBody): new in JSP 2.0 but don't know if the implementation is
> 	good!
> 	(PageContext): removed a lot of methods that I did not see in the
> 	current specifications.
> 	NOTE: This class is NOT usable for now!

Why not?

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> 2003-04-20  Arnaud Vandyck  <[email protected]>
> 
> 	* jsp/PageContext.java (PageContext): extends JspContext (JSP 2.0)
> 	(PAGE_SCOPE): 1
> 	(REQUEST_SCOPE): 2
> 	(SESSION_SCOPE): 3
> 	(APPLICATION_SCOPE): 4
> 	NOTE: I don't know if we must keep the same values as the original
> 	jsp api. If we do, we have to replace the values in the sources by
> 	these ones. BUT: these values are defined in the parent class, so
> 	we can also just erase the four properties in this (PageContext)
> 	class.
> 	(getSession): is an abstract method!
> 	(getPage): new abstract method
> 	(getRequest): new abstract method
> 	(getResponse): new abstract method
> 	(getException): is an abstract method!
> 	(getServletConfig): is an abstract method!
> 
> 	* jsp/JspWriter.java (getRemaining): added
> 
> 2003-04-19  Arnaud Vandyck  <[email protected]>
> 
> 	* jsp/JspFactory.java (getEngineInfo): added
> 
> 	* jsp/JspContext.java: new in the 2.0 JSP spec.
> 
> 	* jsp/ErrorData.java: new in the 2.0 JSP spec.

These look like they will totally break gnujsp (which is very old
indeed).

The GNU-Paperclips project adopted the GNUJSP code (kinda). Would
anyone listening like to help with making GNUJSP relevant again?



> 	* GenericServlet.java (init): QUESTION! Do the servlet have to
> 	log("started") when the ini(ServletConfig) is called?

ANSWER: No, that's implementation detail. Something that containers should do.



Nic