Hi,
If your variable is declared as "member" you will have the effect you want in
term of variable initializing. A variable declare as "member" in MyServlet class
is kind of a static variable for each thread of that servlet once it has been
instanciated.
David
Todd Mytkowicz wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In my servlet, I create an instance variable as such...
>
> private boolean temp = false;
>
> ...
>
> An instance of this servlet is created the first time the servlet is called.
> My understanding is that this variable is only initialized that first time.
>
> Is this temp variable implicitly static? ie, if one user changes the
> variable, will other servlets see that change?
>
> In more general terms, I want this variable to act as a global variable with
> a seperate value to each request.
>
> If user A requests my servlet and changes the temp to true, will subsequent
> users see a value of true?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Todd Mytkowicz:
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