>>>In my opinion Sun made a mistake when including the STM model.
Essentially
>>>it encourages stupid people to stay stupid
Dont be so harsh! Many many programmers find it hard to write
multi-threaded code.
Dont forget that not all pgmrs have degrees in Computer Science!
--Olu E.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon * [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 5:54 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Development tools
>
> > So it is totally useless for any servlet devo work and *no* knowledgable
> > person would suggest using it? Sun made a mistake in including it in
> their
> > servlet API?
>
> In my opinion Sun made a mistake when including the STM model. Essentially
> it encourages stupid people to stay stupid. I'm not saying that you are
> stupid, I'm just saying that it really does nothing to help newbies learn
> how to write code the correct way. It abstracts the notion of having to
> learn how a multithreaded environment works. Under C this is a big thing
> since it is hard to write an MT environment. Under java, it is very simple
> and just requires some basic concepts (ie: syncronize shared objects).
>
> > Is there a resource you could point me to that would tell me why the STM
> > should not be used for servlet devo work, or maybe you could explain for
> my
> > benefit?
>
> See above. The reason why you shouldn't use STM is the entire reason why
> it
> was developed in the first place; it makes your servlet execute in a
> single
> threaded environment. The web is a MT environment, multiple people are
> going
> to be hitting your servlet at the same time. There is no real reason why
> you
> would want to funnel this through an STM environment unless you depended
> on
> other code being single threaded and you did not have any choice.
>
> -jon
>
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