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Subject: RE: [Q] Is it safe to create threads in Tomcat web-apps?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:24:33 -0400
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Thread-Topic: [Q] Is it safe to create threads in Tomcat web-apps?
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From: "Shapira, Yoav" <Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>


Howdy,

>I cannot see why creating a daemon thread cannot cater
>for this. You just start the thread in the init method
>of the InitServlet (or any servlet you create with
>start-when-app-starts).

I'm actually a fan of the background daemon-thread approach, and think=

the user-threading limitations in full J2EE containers is unfortunate
(although I know where it comes from).

Be careful about starting and stopping threads in the init/destroy
methods of servlets, however, as the container can create/destroy your=

servlets (including load-on-startup servlets) almost whenever it wants=

to.  Consider using a context listener instead.

Yoav Shapira


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