Hi, I was tired and obviously not thinking straigt as the error I was doing was calling thread.run but not thread.start... And that was the reason for application lockup.. It works fine right now. Thanx -reynir
> -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 28. nóvember 2002 22:30 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: thread comunicating with ServletContexts > > > I have implemented Scheduler program that has a thread > monitoring a database table for any new tasks that need to be > run in the background. At the moment these tasks consist of > just servlets, but should probably work with a class that > extend a Struts Action. > > I created an HttpURLConnection from a URL object, which > contains the URI part that normally invokes a servlet. i.e. > /servlet/some.servlet.Servlet with the context name on the > front of course, and the server name, port, and scheme (HTTP) > from the ServletContext object. > > Once you are connected you can then fiddle around with > connection settings. Create an OutputStream to write to the > servlet and as InputStream to read from the servlet. I found > that I had to write to the servlet and then close the writer > and then open the input stream and close it in that order. > > Hope this helps, > > > Nathan. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Reynir Hübner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 10:19 AM > Subject: thread comunicating with ServletContexts > > > Hi, > > I have a slight problem.... > > I am starting up a thread when application starts with a > ServletContextListener implementation. The purpouse of the > thread is to monitor a directory that has few xml descriptor > files in it. Attributes from the XML files are parsed into > the ServletContext on startup of the ServletContext, and then > it's possible to trigger reload by executing a servlet, that > does the reload. > > Right now the initial load and the reload by servlet are > working, The thread is monitoring the directory every 10 > seconds it checks if anything has been modified (works fine). > > The problem I am facing right now is to find a way to pass > the attributes read by the Thread (instanciated in a > listener) from the xml files, into the ServletContext. > > One way of doing it might be to run a HTTPUrlConnect against > the servlet that can then reload the attributes from the xml > files, that might work, but then I will have to worrie about > some authentication, etc. That I dont want to have to think > about right now. > > I tried passing a ServletContext variable to the > ServletContext to the Thread, but that seems to lock up the > webapplication, meaning the thread runs fine but nothing else. > > I'm tired and I think I must be not thinking straight, can > someone help me ? > :) > > Thanx > -reynir > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-user-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>