-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David,
David Smith wrote: > As I understand it one instance of the servlet per webapp is accessed > from all threads in a reentrant manner. This is why you normally can't > use any class instance variables in a servlet. While this is the most straightforward implementation of a servlet container, the servlet specification makes no guarantees whatsoever about the lifecycle of a specific servlet. The container is free to create a new instance of the servlet to handle every request, or to keep a single copy around for the life of the webapp. Or anything in between. The only guarantee made along these lines is for servlets that implement SingleThreadModel, which will either require serialized access or multiple instances to handle requests. Since this has been deprecated but not removed from the spec, I'll bet it will continue to be supported forever, but it's not a very good idea IMO. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG+64J9CaO5/Lv0PARAjpoAJ0WrN71Y3DsZMwsH3Id7yyVw7eSNgCgwenS 7F7lp0R5RGdDyYeopo6oQO4= =Ki+D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
