I think it's mainly used in multithreaded containers such as Axis, to give components access to context information without intruding into the component model. See the Javadoc at:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/ThreadLocal.html - Rob -----Original Message----- From: Jakob Skovenborg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Axis MessageContext to the WebService Hej Rober and Jim Thank's a lot. I did'nt know this ThreadLocal mechanism. For other purposes, do you know any examples how to use it. /Jakob Robert Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assume this uses a ThreadLocal internally, so that a > different object is > returned depending the thread that invokes it. > > - Rob > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jakob Skovenborg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 10:54 PM > Subject: Re: RE: Axis MessageContext to the WebService > > > > Hej Jim > > How does that work with concurrent WebServices? Wont you > get a > > MessageContext belongs to another session. > > /Jakob > > > > Jim Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jakob > > > > > > Usually the MessageContext is available to a Web > service > > > invoked by axis > > > through the static method of the MessageContext class > as > > > follows: > > > > > > MessageContext msgContext = > > > MessageContext.getCurrentContext(); > > > > > > I think that is the one... > > > > > > HTH > > > Jim > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Jakob Skovenborg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: 16 August 2003 08:06 > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Axis MessageContext to the WebService > > > > > > > > > > > > How do I pass the Axis MessageContext from the Pivot > > > Handler to > > > > the WebService. My Webservice has to get access to a > > > backend > > > > service which need the UserID from MessageContext. > > > > /Jakob > > > > > > > > > > > > >
