Re: thread safety of org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn

2008-05-14 Thread DIGLLOYD INC
Bill, Thank your for the thoughtful response. I agree that there is unlikely to be a problem in practice on commonly- used systems (which typically have write-through caches). And most JVM implementations (if not all) can't track small changes; everything gets flushed pretty quickly becaus

Re: thread safety of org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn

2008-05-14 Thread Bill Barker
"DIGLLOYD INC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > First, I'm an experienced developer, and well-versed in Java threading. > My main work is on the Glassfish project at Sun. > > I've been looking into the code of > org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn to se

thread safety of org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn

2008-05-14 Thread DIGLLOYD INC
First, I'm an experienced developer, and well-versed in Java threading. My main work is on the Glassfish project at Sun. I've been looking into the code of org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn to see how it works, and I've noticed a number of thread-safety bugs. My understanding