Marc Krisjanous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Hi all,
>I wonder if anyone can confirm the following:
>
>I have a servlet that will call a synchronized method that will write to a
>file. My understanding of how Servlets work is that for every web session
>(web browser) which calls the servlet the servlet will have a thread created
>for that session in which data will be stored for that session but each
>thread will use the same method(e.g the class and methods will not be
>created for each thread). Thus in order to access and write to external
>media you need to make that method synchronized since in theory there is
>only one method that all threads share.
>
>Is this true??
>
>Best Regards
>
no, since the servlet engine may make multiple instances of your
sevlet (most will), and Java syncronizes on an object. In any case , my personal view
is that it is better to protect the object you care about, so in this case it would be
the FileOutputStream.
Tim.
so syncronize on the---
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