Application cannot access Servlet in TK5 anymore

[Jani Laakso]

If my memory serves right in TK4 I could access Servlet instance but I cannot seem to find a way to do this in TK5. This is common requirement for Toolkit in any case.

In my app I need to hook shutdown / end Servlet method to perform database related shutdown functions.

[Jani Laakso]

Note, this does not relate in any way to Sprint #1 (at least not at this point).

[Joonas Lehtinen]

This should be considered as bug (prevents moving many (most?) applications from tk4 to tk5)

[Jani Laakso]

Here's workaround:

public class TestingToolsServlet extends ApplicationServlet

(extend ApplicationServlet?).

[Jani Laakso]

I do not remember the actual case / issue anymore.

It's perfectly OK to extend existing ApplicationServlet? and create custom servlet related code there. We do this e.g. in Testing Tools where servlet is started as soon as servlet container comes up, servlet init starts up TT server task handler thread.

Also, this was not session related issue, both in TK4 and 5 it is pretty straightforward to get servlet container's session object and do what you want with it on "user-side code".

[Joonas Lehtinen]

Milestone User Interface Library 5.1.2 deleted