In the course of some work I've been doing on Tomcat, I've been thinking about using a
Thread Pool. There is currently a bunch of code doing this in both TC 3 and TC 4,
but, no surprise, it's extremely difficult to understand and/or extend.
Doug Lea, author of Concurrent Programming in Java, has written a set of concurrency
utility classes, including a very nice-looking ThreadPool ("PooledExecutor")
implementation, and some good "Channels" for communication between threads. He
documents these at:
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/classes/EDU/oswego/cs/dl/util/concurrent/intro.html
I'm interested in using his code, but I'm not sure if it can be included in the TC
source. Here's what he says about the license:
"All classes are released to the public domain and may be used for any purpose
whatsoever without permission or acknowledgment."
My suspicion would be that we couldn't bundle up his code as part of a TC download,
but I'm not totally clear.
Can anyone help me understand this?
Thanks,
-Dan
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