if you are accessing any static variables in method Y,it can cause concurrency issues. Thanks, Shailesh.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:38 PM, John Smith <tomcat.ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > I should know this, but I want to confirm with smarter people on the board. > > Assume the following: > 1. Servlet receives an HTTP POST request. doPost(...) is called. > 2. doPost(..) instantiates class X with each request > 3. Class X calls a static method of class Y > > Assuming I have no synchronization in the method signature or body of Y, > there is a danger of concurrency issues or thread safety issues. Many > instances of X can call Y's static method at the same time, causing BAD > THINGS to happen. > > True? I swear I used to know this but I've worked on so much stuff for this > project in the last few months it simply fell out of my brain :). I'm also > aware that the answer to this is often "it depends" but I'm looking for the > general case answer. > > TIA > John >
