servlet/mime type chaining

[Seann McCulloch <sm...@peopledoc.com>]

Hi

    Does anyone know if there's a way to perform servlet or mime type
chaining
    using jakarta + tomcat ?

    Specifically, I want to make an XSLT servlet handle all XML output
    by my JSP pages.

    I can do this using mime type chaining in JRun, but can't find any
way of doing
    the same using Tomcat.

    Apologies if this is an obvious question.

Regards
Seann McCulloch

Re: servlet/mime type chaining

[Michal Mosiewicz <mi...@interdata.com.pl>]

Laird Nelson wrote:
> [...]
> Perhaps a better answer for this kind of question would be why would you
> do it that way when instead you could XXX YYY.  For example, I know that
> chaining is bad for the reasons you cite, but what's the alternative
> (I'm sure there is one)?

Event based processing, which allows for reducing
serialisation/deserialisation cost (look for SAX).

-- Mike

Re: servlet/mime type chaining

[Laird Nelson <lj...@unix.amherst.edu>]

Michal Mosiewicz wrote:
> A standard answer for this kind of question is why would you do it that
> way? Chaining is a poor concept, cause there is a large performance
> penalty on serialising/deserialising text data.

Perhaps a better answer for this kind of question would be why would you
do it that way when instead you could XXX YYY.  For example, I know that
chaining is bad for the reasons you cite, but what's the alternative
(I'm sure there is one)?

Cheers,
Laird

Re: servlet/mime type chaining

[Michal Mosiewicz <mi...@interdata.com.pl>]

Seann McCulloch wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
>     Does anyone know if there's a way to perform servlet or mime type
> chaining
>     using jakarta + tomcat ?

A standard answer for this kind of question is why would you do it that
way? Chaining is a poor concept, cause there is a large performance
penalty on serialising/deserialising text data.

-- Mike

Re: servlet/mime type chaining

[Gabriel Russell <g....@ieee.org>]

>     Specifically, I want to make an XSLT servlet handle all XML output
>     by my JSP pages.

Isn't this the basic functionality of Cocoon? http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/