I have used Thread.sleep() in a webapp, but not within a servlet as such. I wrote Runnable classes that were started in their own thread of execution when the webapp started up. This worked fine.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday 31 May 2005 18:50 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: invoking Thread.Sleep() from a servlet instance > > > It's allowed and typically a bad idea. > > > -Tim > > Clark O'Brien wrote: > > > I am looking for insight on invoking Thread.sleep() > > from a Tomcat Servlet. I understand it is explicitly > > prohibited in the J2EE spec and it is not hard to > > comprehend that invoking sleep on a thread that is > > processing multiple requests could cause serious side > > effects. Still I hear rumors that Tomcat allows sleep > > invocations and I occasionally see it done. > > clark > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]