thanks so much - What I am understanding is - Static - not a mystery - there is only ever 1 of them !! Public - not a mystery - always accessible
For servlets - as long as the variables are defined within the POST method even if the servlet container allows 20 servlet instances to be invoked, each POST method owns his variables and if there's only one instance, and all calls to the servlet go thru this one instance, the variables are still safe ? ( I got around my problem by synchronizing the POST but will need to change this to prevent slow-down - just clearing things up before I launch into the changes ) I realise a class's private variables cannot be accessed from outside directly - my confusion was regarding -instances- of a class and whether private class level variables are unique when there are multiple instances alive - I understand that this would normally be yes. - Veronica __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
