Re: Multi-threaded servlet environment

On 30/12/2003 06:59 Marcus Andree S. Magalhaes wrote:
>
> We were about to lose a support agreement with BAE/Weblogic people
> simply because we were creating threads on our own.  No reasons
> were given to us, but they (BES) simply don't *recommend* the
> arbitrary creation of threads.
>
> I suspect it's this way because people can easily create lots of
> leaks, excessive CPU usage or something like that and then blame
> the application server for its ridiculous performance.


EJB containers need to have full control of object lifecycles so creating
your own threads may cause problems. OTOH, web-only containers don't have
such rigid requirements so creating your own threads is fine in Tomcat (I
do this quite a bit without a problem).

HTH

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