Howdy,
It claims that aliases (I may be wrong on this, it's
hard to decipher the difference between JWS and Tomcat
lingo) will create different instances to the target
Servlet, but static variables are recognized. So
access to one servlet instance might result in:
The servlet container
The servlet container may (and tomcat does last I
checked) create one instance of a
(non-SingleThreadModel) servlet for every servlet
tag in web.xml. So just have two servlet tags
with different servlet-name but same
servlet-class in your web.xml. You don't need two
contexts for this.
I've got a book (extra credit to who can name it)
which uses a Counter servlet as an example of how
servlet containers handle static variables.
It claims that aliases (I may be wrong on this, it's
hard to decipher the difference between JWS and Tomcat
lingo) will create
