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From: "Steve Kirk" <tomcat-user@web-startup.co.uk>
To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: invoking Thread.Sleep()  from a servlet instance
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:41:57 +0100
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I have used Thread.sleep() in a webapp, but not within a servlet as =
such.  I
wrote Runnable classes that were started in their own thread of =
execution
when the webapp started up.  This worked fine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Funk [mailto:funkman@joedog.org]=20
> Sent: Tuesday 31 May 2005 18:50
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: invoking Thread.Sleep() from a servlet instance
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> It's allowed and typically a bad idea.
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> -Tim
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> Clark O'Brien wrote:
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> > I am looking for insight on invoking Thread.sleep()
> > from a Tomcat Servlet. I understand it is explicitly
> > prohibited in the J2EE spec and it is not hard to=20
> > comprehend that invoking sleep on a thread that is
> > processing multiple requests could cause serious side
> > effects. Still I hear rumors that Tomcat allows sleep
> > invocations and I occasionally see it done.
> >                    clark
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