Re: Session invalidation and background thread

2013-11-26 Thread Marios Skounakis
Martin, I understand this is getting a bit off topic so we could as well drop it. I understand that the threads and session will eventually be garbage collected (go to /dev/null as you said). But this is not necessarily bad, is it? In my case these threads are updating an application-wide cache.

Re: Session invalidation and background thread

2013-11-24 Thread Martin Grigorov
Hi, On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Marios Skounakis msc...@gmail.com wrote: Bas, Thanks for your answer. I understand what you're saying and you're right. If I were designing the application now I'd do one of your suggestions. But unfortunately we've written most of the code and these

Re: Session invalidation and background thread

2013-11-23 Thread Bas Gooren
Hi, I guess it depends on the lifecycle of those threads how I would handle this. Suppose the session is invalidated and destroyed, what should happen to the threads? Do they continue (A) or do they need to stop (B)? A) In this case I would not depend on the session at all, if possible.

Re: Session invalidation and background thread

2013-11-23 Thread Marios Skounakis
Bas, Thanks for your answer. I understand what you're saying and you're right. If I were designing the application now I'd do one of your suggestions. But unfortunately we've written most of the code and these threads now depend on spring session beans. Right now B is pretty much the only viable

Session invalidation and background thread

2013-11-22 Thread Marios Skounakis
Hi all, This is maybe a Spring question but as my app is a wicket app and I use this list regularly and everyone is very helpful I thought I'd ask here first. I have a RequestCycleListener which during onBeginRequest() conditionally spawns some background threads and runs them using an Executor.