Working with the servlet output stream directly

[teknokrat]

I have created a number of Views that manage the response stream themselves. The data i have is not html and is constructed dynamically so i don't need any templates, jsps, etc. Can someone comment on the best practice for doing this.

I am extending AbstractView and overriding renderMergedOutputModel. I set the content type and character encoding and write the data out. Should i now flush and close the output stream? Is this something that the spring framework and/or application server takes care off?

cheers

[Goran]

The application server takes care of flush and close. You can work with the stream using more specialized spring view classes as well, i.e if a view and a model is expected as a return you simply return null.

Cheers

G

[teknokrat]

Which view classes would be best? To give you an idea of what i am doing, I need to output X<L generated by JAXB, and text/plain messages. Is there and spring support for any of these?

cheers

[sandstorm]

I think that u dont need any more layers of abstraction. You can use direct OOP in conjunction with the controller, in the case of JAXB.