Not every servlet container will support the same cross context methodology. Most would say you're approach is an EJB with a life cycle outside of the interaction layer.
But honestly, you'll just spend the next few hours googling, pulling out hair, buying a book on jboss and then curse it, and do it this way in the end.. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:56 PM, David Seltzer <dselt...@tveyes.com> wrote: > That certainly seems like the simple way to solve the problem. I was > just wondering if I was overlooking a simple way to do this via web.xml > servlet-mapping. I was trying to avoid having everything hit the same > doGet(). > > -----Original Message----- > From: patrick o'leary [mailto:pj...@pjaol.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:51 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Servlets Sharing Resources > > Why not have 1 servlet and based on a parameter / url, serve 2 different > outputs? > > if(request.getString("asXML") !=null) > showXML(); > else > showOtherStuff(); > > Save yourself the hassle of dealing with jndi / contexts / spring or > SingleTons > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM, David Seltzer <dselt...@tveyes.com> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Sorry for the slightly off-topic question, but I've just run into a > gap > > in my understanding of Servlet programming. > > > > The question: Is it possible for two servlets to share access to an > > instance of IndexSearcher or an IndexReader? I'm thinking about > setting > > up a Search servlet to provide XML search results and a Statistics > > servlet to provide numeric statistics based on the same data. > > > > I imagine the right way to do it is to make both servlets child > classes > > of a manager class, but I'm not sure how that would look. I'm also not > > sure how to configure tomcat in this scenario? > > > > -Dave > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
