Yes, those are useful objects, but they can be set at init() time, so there is no point in pooling since only one instance is needed.
----- Original Message ----- From: "QM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Multiple requests sharing the same Servlet instance > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:53:07PM +0530, Keith Hankin wrote: > : Maybe I'm being dumb, but it seems to me that based upon what I'm hearing, > : there is no benefit of doing Servlet instance pooling since the Servlets > : aren't true objects; they are merely places to put code, since no local > : state is useful. > > Depends on how you look at it: they are true objects in that they are > self-referential, and hold some (shareable) state. > > Check out the javadoc for the HttpServlet class: by default, the > ServletConfig and some other vars are shared, and you're more than > welcome to share thread-safe objects (such as a logger). I'd certainly > call those local objects "useful." =) > > -QM > > -- > > software -- http://www.brandxdev.net > tech news -- http://www.RoarNetworX.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
