Hi, I would be grateful is someone could answer these questions:
* Can servlets safely spawn threads? * If so, under what conditions? I tried to find the answers searching the web, but found conflicting views. So I thought it worth asking about a specific servlet container implemention. I'm trying to make a very simple asynchronous messaging system on top of HTTP. What I have in mind requires that the servlet called would complete the request-response in "reasonable" time, yet may initiate other processes that are potentially long-running. The easiest approach would be to have the servlet spawning another thread in which to run the other process, and return a response to the client immediately. But is this possible without running straight into concurrency breakage? More background at : http://dannyayers.com/2007/01/28/a-servlets-problem Thanks, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com
