I'm experiencing a strange problem with a web application I'm developing under Tomcat 4.1.18 and am looking for information on how Tomcat handles threading and memory/variable scoping for servlets.
I have a servlet that pulls data from a DB and generates graphs. On a given page sent the client browser, this servlet is called 3 times via image source tags: Example: -------- <img src="/wwwif-int/get.graphRW?ip=1.1.1.1&report=Daily_Mbps&start=12-JUN-03"> <img src="/wwwif-int/get.graphRW?ip=1.1.1.1&report=Monthly_Mbps&start=13-MAY-03"> <img src="/wwwif-int/get.graphRW?ip=1.1.1.1&report=Yearly_Mbps&start=13-JUN-02"> These images take a while to make due to the number of data points in each graph. As I watch the page while it renders and logging that I've got in the graph servlet, I'm noticing two things: 1) There are only 2 threads spawned by Tomcat for each client (i.e. web browser in session with Tomcat) to run the graph servlet. I will typically get the first two images on the page. But, the third one fails to be rendered, and I don't see any traffic in the logs for a 3rd thread running the graph servlet. Is my browser only requesting 2 images from Tomcat at a time, or does Tomcat have a limit on the number of servlets/threads it will spawn for a given session? Or, is there something else I'm missing? 2) When called three times on one page, the graph servlet will return the wrong image for one of the graphs. For example, given the img src tags above, I'll get two Monthly graphs instead of a Daily and a Monthly. If I watch the log file, I see two threads working on generating the Monthly graph instead of one working on the Daily graph and one working on the Monthly graph. When single calls to the servlet are made, the right graph is returned each time. Am I bumping into a memory/variable scoping issue by making rapid, successive calls to the same servlet from one web client? It seems like the request parameters for the second graph (i.e. the Monthly one) are over writing the parameters for the first one. I wasn't sure, but these seemed like developer oriented questions since they deal with how Tomcat is running a servlet. Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated. Thanks, (John 3:16) Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]