People say the normal on Tomcat should be only one instance... I am getting
three...

----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Secrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: Servlet Instances


> You can't explicitly control how many instances a container may create of
> your servlet since you don't have control over the container code.
(Unless
> you hack the container that is.)  If you do hack, you might as well write
> your own servlet specification since you would have to change many of the
> interfaces.  This isn't very reasonable.  (You can't make the constructor
> private and make it a singleton since a servlet must conform to a
> HttpServlet interface.)
>
> What most people do when they have this need, is let the container call
the
> servlet to it's hearts content, and ensure that any objects the servlet
> references are only instantiated one time.  (Via singletons, static
classes,
> etc.).  However - since these objects usuallly have synchronized methods,
if
> your site gets a lot of traffic, the container won't be taking advantage
of
> it's multi threaded abilities, and each request will have to block on any
> synchronized sections of code you have.
>
> In a large traffic application, I would use a DBMS / EJB system which
> offloads much of the servlet transactionality.
>
> Randy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rui Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:11 PM
> Subject: Servlet Instances
>
>
> How should I control how many instances I want of a given servlet?
> In my case I would like just one.
>
>
>
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