There is nothing which stops you to do a "new MyServlet()" inside the servlet code. This "theoritically" creates a new instance of the servlet. Although this instance will not be used by the servlet container to delegate requests.
-----Original Message----- From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: destroy method On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Milt Epstein wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Pradeep Kumar wrote: > > > Can someone tell me, when does the web container destroys the > > servlet object? > > > > More specifically, are the servlet objects destroyed whenever the > > container goes down? Or, is it that the container can destroy the > > object and recreate it periodically. > > You can make no assumptions about when the container might > destroy/re-create servlets, because it can do it anytime it wants. As > to whether servlets are destroyed when the container goes down, that > probably depends on how it goes down -- if it's a clean shutdown, most > likely all servlets will be destroyed, if it's a crash, probably not. > > > > According to the specification, there must be one and only one > > instance of a servlet. > > Unless you're using SingleThreadModel -- which you should be anyway. [ ... ] Whoops -- that should be "shouldn't be". Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
