[of static methods and singletons] > Static methods are ok. But static data such as singletons cause many > questions in the list (a quick 30 second search turned these up):
> I'm not saying there bad - in some cases they work great. But they can be > very confusing for others, which I why I try to avoid it. Static by itself is > tricky for some to comprehend. Oh, I see what you mean. Tomcat's use of multiple classloaders does present you with somewhat of a qualified notion of what a singleton is. If the class lives in CATALINA_BASE/shared, you get a `real' Singleton where one instance is used by all contexts; if you put the class in a context's WEB-INF, then you have a singleton that is only accessible to that context; if you put the class in the WEB-INFs of two different contexts, then you get two different instances of the Singleton class. Anyway, thanks for the discussion :) -- Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
