Don't worry, I don't do it like that, I was just copy and pasting the same
method to save time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: doPost() or doGet() ???
>On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Sam Rose wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was just wondering, which is better to use.
>> I am posting and retrieving data to and from a database.
>>
>> Should I use doGet() or doPost()?
>>
>> Or do I do what I have been doing and do this?
>>
>> public synchronized void doanything (HttpServletRequest req,
>> HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException {
>> }
>>
>> public synchronized void doGet (HttpServletRequest req,
HttpServletResponse
>> res) throws ServletException, IOException {
>> doanything(req, res);}
>>
>> public synchronized void doPost (HttpServletRequest req,
>> HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException {
>> doanything(req, res);}
>
>If you're suggesting this as an alternative to putting all the code in
>one of doGet()/doPost() and having the other one call it, I don't
>really see much difference. Either seems reasonable for the situation
>where you want the same behavior with GET or POST.
>
>However, those synchronized's scare me. I gather you're putting them
>in to make things thread-safe, but synchronizing the entire
>doGet()/doPost() method seems a shotgun approach when more precision
>shooting would serve better. I think it would be better to analyze
>your code more closely, and isolate the synchronized's to as small a
>block (or blocks) as possible.
>
>Milt Epstein
>Research Programmer
>Software/Systems Development Group
>Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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