multiple instances of a servlet?

[Ville Rinne]

We've implemented the request-controller pattern using a servlet as the entry-point of all our jsp-pages. For some reason Orion creates multiple instances of this servlet even though it isn't implementing SingleThreadModel and there isn't anything peculiar about it. I have the servlet printing to System.out every time init() is run and every time it receives a request, it also prints the memory address of the instance that's handling it. For some reason with this servlet there are multiple instances (up to 3 so far) that handle these requests. There doesn't seem to be any larger logic in which instance gets to handle the request. It's not a problem per se but I just find it rather strange since I assumed that only one instance of a servlet would be created. Anyone else ran into this ?   cheers, Ville Rinne