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Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:03:21 +0200
From: Daniel Fagerstrom <danielf@nada.kth.se>
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Subject: [vote] Let our environment abtractions extend the http servlet ones
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I would like o.a.c.environment.[Request|Response|Session] to extend 
javax.servlet.http.Http[ServletRequest|ServletResponse|Session] 
respectively.

The gain of doing so is that it will be easier to reuse Cocoon 
components outside Cocoon and that it will be simpler to use Cocoon 
together with other frameworks (see 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.cocoon.devel/59035/focus=59143 
for a discussion about this).

A drawback is that some slight back incompatibility is introduced. The 
most important one Request.getSession will have HttpSession as return 
type instead of Session, and that user code needs to switch from Session 
to HttpSession or downcast the return value to Session. Uses of 
o.a.c.environment.Cookie needs to be switched to 
javax.servlet.http.Cookie, (which has exactly the same API), see 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.cocoon.devel/74322 and 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.cocoon.devel/74276.

I don't want this to collide with releasing 2.2, so I'll wait with 
introducing the changes if there is any risk for that.

Please cast your vote!

/Daniel