I'm rewriting this reply, maybe I wasn't clear enough :-) My application have two types of objects that are constantly created and destroyed. I believe that they could be pooled in some way (maybe using commons pooling package. These types are: 1- Objects that handle user interaction. Basically they are the objects that actually implement tasks that would be otherwise done using servlets. In pratice, JSPs send data to them (like html form data) and they process it and return the results to the browser. These ones i'm not sure (yet) if I should pool. I'm not familiar with Struts, I would like to know how it does that. Someone can give me some tips? 2- These I strongly believe I should cache, and I'm already caching them, but with an solution designed by myself. I have some database tables that stores user permissions for the application. Basically, there are two tables that stores an module ID and who can access it (by user id, user profession, etc). I was thinking about loading all of them in memory at system startup and update them from time to time (or using Observable interfaces)? What do you think about it?
>You may want to pursue object pooling, but the prevailing conventional >wisdom is that it's not really necessary. Object Pooling is important for >objects that are particularly expensive to create (due to internal object >requirements, like connecting to external resources) and is not really >appropriate simply for "lots" of standard generic Java objects. > >While instantiating an object certainly has some cost, creating and tossing >them away is not overly expensive. > >Now, perhaps you've done some testing and found these particular objects to >be problematic, but it seems to me to be a toss up between simply creating >new objects versus using an object pool. Any object pool is necessarily >going to at least have synchronization issues tied to it which may in the >end cost more overall than creating and disposing of the objects. > >Modern GCs are pretty good about tossing away temporary objects. > >Now, if you're perhaps doing some things in a tight loop, then maybe simply >a judicious use of the objects would be better. Say, rather than using a >generic object pool, simply creating the few necessary instances for your >loop before hand and reusing them explicity within the loop rather than >constantly creating new ones. -- Felipe Schnack Analista de Sistemas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cel.: (51)91287530 Linux Counter #281893 Centro Universit�rio Ritter dos Reis http://www.ritterdosreis.br [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fone/Fax.: (51)32303341 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
