I'm maintaining a Web application for searching multiple wikis, this app runs under Tomcat 6. I need to modify a servlet so it instantiates a 'Thread' subclass to perform a wiki availability check every so often, say every 30 minutes. Given that I'm no expert on the use of threads, a co-worker suggested the following questions to look into:
· Does the spawned thread have a time limit imposed by Tomcat? · Does it take up worker thread space from other Tomcat threads? I'd appreciate any help anyone could give w.r.t. these questions.
