I have an application that uses a shared resource that is for all intensive
purposes similar to a database connection. The only difference is that
unlike a standard database connection I can't just create more connections
in my connection pool like I can with my db connection pool (the reason is
irrelevant but for those that question, setting up these connection objects
entails a fee as well as about a week of time to get the service connected
via a service call to the office).
My question is whether or not calling Thread.sleep() within a servlet's
doGet/doPost/service method until the connection is available is a
safe/standard practice. This is a sample of what I'm thinking of doing:
while ((myConn = getConnection()) == null)
{
Thread.sleep(250);
}
Is this thread safe?
Any ideas of whether it will cause serious performance degradation?
Thanks for advice.
Mike
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