Quick thought:-
Use a dedicated servlet that is auto-loaded at engine startup to manage the
thread pool.
Lee
At 11:55 11/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I was wondering how other developers got around the problem I am now facing.
>I am about to start working on a project that is going to use Servlets
>extensively, but I am running into a problem in determining the best
>approach to take to allow the Servlets communicate with non-servlet based
>classes (business classes).
>
>For example, a Database Connection pool. Most discussions about this topic
>involve using a Singleton pattern and just getting a connection from the
>pool when one is necessary. Thats nice and all and is in fact the approach
>I have taken in all the Servlets that I have developed up to this point.
>But what if you have 5, 10 or more Servlets that need to use the the same
>Connection Pool? Which one is responsible for initializing the pool? All
>of them? If that is the case, that might cause problems when maintaining the
>system (one class sets the wrong parameter).
>
>My situation is similar to that, except the Objects that my Servlets will
>communicate with are business objects like CustomerCreator, InvoiceCreator,
>ShipmentCreator, etc...In application development, since I am in control of
>what gets started when and setting up the communication links between
>Objects and classes, I have never had problems. But with Servlets, I can't
>think of a similar approach other than the Singleton design pattern.
>
>I was just wondering how developers who have developed larger servlet based
>applications got their Servlets and their Business Objects to talk to each
>other....
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>
>Chris Gow
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