[Opensource] [Expresso 5 Design Architecture] ControllerResponse.findForward

[Michael Rimov]

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At 06:26 PM 10/14/2002 +0100, you wrote:

>This would also allow us the oppurtunity to expose the `ActionMapping'.
>It would also be attractive to pure Struts users.
>
>However, the trouble is that when Mike Nash originally integrates Struts
>  in to EF he wanted to hide the Struts / Servlets from the controller 
> functionally.
>He wanted to able to run Controller outside the HTTP Java Servlet enviroment.
>
>So what do we do, then ?
>
>One idea I suppose is to introduce a special subclass
>`ServletControllerResponse' and then heavy HTTP specific Controller can
>just cast downwards.
>
>         ControllerResponse myResponse = ...
>         ServletControllerResponse theRealthing =
>                 (ServletControllerResponse) myResponse
>
>
>Ideas?

I like it! Since I run Controllers outside a web environment, I especially 
appreciate the design decision :)

I'll be merging the "expresso4-1" branch in CVS into HEAD and then 
re-branching so that we have a HEAD branch and an expresso5-0-1 
branch.  Once I'm done the 'housekeeping', feel free to check what you're 
talking about into HEAD.  [I'll post here when I've got it done]

                                                 -Mike