> From: Thom Hehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Spawning a thread
>
> Can you point me to some documentation about context listener
> threads?
Context listeners are classes, not threads. The servlet spec is the
definitive doc, but there's not a great deal of h
Just to clarify, George wasn't talking about a "context listener
thread". I suppose there *technically* is such a thing, but what he was
referring to is spawning a thread *from* a context listener. Subtle
semantic difference, but it completely changes the meaning :)
Frank
Thom Hehl wrote:
Can you point me to some documentation about context listener threads? I
have no idea what you're talking about.
Just a simple overview of application Events and Listeners, but it
should give you the idea:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs70/webapp/app_events.html#175768
Cheer
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Subject: Re: Spawning a thread
risks. But, if you have something like a background process
that isn't
tied to a request, with the caveat the other poster made about daemon
A good way of starting threads not tied to a request is to have a context
listener class start t
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> From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:20 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Spawning a thread
> risks. But, if you have something like a background process
> that isn't
>
Most of the time people will tell you "don't do it", but don't get any
more specific than that. Generally-speaking, spawning a thread to
process a request is somewhat of a bad idea because the container is not
responsible for managing the thread and therefore you run som
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> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:03 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Spawning a thread
>
> Isn't there a caveat about spawning a new thread inside of a servlet?
>
> Thom Hehl
> Heavyweight Software for Heavyweight Needs
> www.heavyweightsoftware.co
Isn't there a caveat about spawning a new thread inside of a servlet?
Thom Hehl
Heavyweight Software for Heavyweight Needs
www.heavyweightsoftware.com
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