On 24/03/2014 16:08, John Smith 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.
It depends on how Y's static method is written. If the method is thread-safe - no issue. If it isn't thread-safe then you have a problem. Mark > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
