I've got a book (extra credit to who can name it) which uses a Counter servlet as an example of how servlet containers handle static variables.
It claims that aliases (I may be wrong on this, it's hard to decipher the difference between JWS and Tomcat lingo) will create different instances to the target Servlet, but static variables are recognized. So access to one servlet instance might result in: My Counter = 5, Global Counter = 8 While access to the other counter might have given you: My Counter = 4, Global Counter = 8 The global counter would be a count for the two instances combined (via the *static* field) and the "my" counter would be for the instance via a stanard fiield. I've tried pointing to the same WebApp via two different <Context>'s, but the two apps are treated as completely separate, and the static variable doesn't hold. This is correct...two contexts should never interfere. The question is how I can replicate the above behavior so static variables are spanned across more than one instance? Can anyone point me at a Tomcat scoping document? -- - John Blanco - Code Guru @ Rapture In Venice - http://members.bbnow.net/jblanco --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]