At 09:35  26/2/01 -0500, Berin Loritsch wrote:
>I have a feeling that we are dealing with a Race Condition on the
AbstractPool.

quite Possible.

>I think we should make all Pools ThreadSafe.  This contract will make things
>alot easier for people who are implementing pools in concurrent execution
>environments (i.e. multithreaded).  In cocoon, I will explicitly synchronize
>the get() and set() methods--but this is a temporary stop-gap until we make
>the Pool implementation thread-safe.

All pools used in a multithreaded environment should use ThreadSafePool.
DefaultPool is for use in single-threaded environments.

>I do think there is room for multiple different types of pools:
>
>* Hard resource limiting (Absolutely no more than X components)
>* Soft resource limiting (May have more than X, but extras are destroyed
when returned)
>* No resource limiting (As extras are needed, they are created and
maintained)

agreed ;)
Cheers,

Pete

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