Not if you synchronize things properly.
--
Martin Cooper
----- Original Message -----
From: "Access Denied" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: Startup parameters for a servlet
> Nick,
>
> Won't using static methods and variables cause unpredictable results if
more
> than one thread is running?
>
> Cheers!
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nic Ferrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Startup parameters for a servlet
>
>
> > >>> Mandar Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22-Mar-01 1:45:05 AM >>>
> >
> > >for example I register a servlet with name
> > >Servlet1 I want to send a paramter "xyz" to it
> > >I register a same servlet class with another name
> > >Servlet2 I want it to take paramter "abc".
> > >The purpose of the whole exercise is to initialize
> > >the servlet depending its registered name / url,
> > >so that I can have some computation based on
> > >that.
> >
> > To do exactly what you want can't be achieved.
> >
> > However, you can do this in your web.xml:
> >
> > <servlet>
> > <servlet-name>fred1</servlet-name>
> > <servlet-class>com.Fred.FredServlet</servlet-class>
> > <init-param>someparam</init-param>
> > <init-value>xyz</init-value>
> > </servlet>
> >
> > <servlet>
> > <servlet-name>fred2</servlet-name>
> > <servlet-class>com.Fred.FredServlet</servlet-class>
> > <init-param>someparam</init-param>
> > <init-value>abc</init-value>
> > </servlet>
> >
> > <servlet-mapping>
> > <servlet-name>fred1</servlet-name>
> > <url-pattern>/firstfred/*</url-pattern>
> > </servlet-mapping>
> >
> > <servlet-mapping>
> > <servlet-name>fred2</servlet-name>
> > <url-pattern>/secondfred/*</url-pattern>
> > </servlet-mapping>
> >
> >
> > There will be two copies of the servlet in the container, they will
> > be completely different instances but some communication is possible
> > using static methods and variables.
> >
> >
> > Nic
> >
> >
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