On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:05:04 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > The only thing that's like a global in Java is a static variable (static > final usually, but in this case just static).
Another good trick in a web app is to use the ThreadLocal class to simulate globals that are thread specific. AFAIK, all servlet containers use one thread to process a request (unless you are doing some funky stuff with threading in your application). What that means is that you can extend ThreadLocal and use that class as you would a static variable, but its data is only shared by code executing on one thread. Where I work, we use a filter to call ThreadUser.setUser() with a User object - so anywhere in the application, we can reference ThreadUser.getUser() (as if it were static), and always get the user that the thread is serving. Larry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
