Hi, I did a bit more research - It seems that it is not really necessary to have static Memcache and Datastore services as their instantiation is very fast: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/e19b792042b2ff9b
And also we should not assume thread-safety of any class not documented as being thread-safe.. Also some testing of my own shows the runtime for creating 1000 instances: Datastore: 5 ms Memcache: 61 ms So I'll just create them whenever I need. Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine-java/-/BgWMWoQytgQJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.