>>It seems reasonable to believe that a web service will have >>more than one request at a time. My query is how does the >>apache-soap server deal with multiple requests. If you use it >>in combination with Tomcat does it simply follow Tomcat's >>rules where nothing is thread safe and it is down to the >>developer to handle concurrency issues and load balancing.
Yes. It follows the Serlvet spec in that regard. If you look at org.apache.soap.server.http.RPCRouterServlet you can see that the doPost method is not threadsafe. I just came across some issues when attempting to cache a Provider amongst clients. >>CORBA can use various concurrency models dependent on the >>implementation including thread pools, thread per request >>etc. How does apache soap deal with these issues? These >>issues are important if you are going to design architectures >>that use web services. >> >>Thanks in advance. >> >>Darren Marvin >>Tel: +44 23 8076 0834 >>Fax: +44 23 8076 0833 >>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://www.it-innovation.soton.ac.uk >>
