Tomcat 8.0.x Question: I am wanting to know the proper way to start a thread from a servlet.
Use Case: A batch process will call a URL that is a servlet. The servlet will call a processes that will trigger a thread to run to do a particular job. The thread will run for a while. The servlet will not wait on the thread to finish running. Also the thread that is started is running a processes that requires there to only be one of these processes running at any given time. What I have done: I created a class I call EmailProcess. I have a static Boolean flag in the class called isWorking that indicates if the process is running. The class extends Runnable. The class also has a static method to start the thread if isWorking flag is false. I have a servlet that will call the static method in EmailProcess to start the thread if possible. Note: If the Tomcat container decides to clean up the servlet that is called that triggers the thread I don't want it to mess with the thread. I want it to keep on running. Thanks for your advice. Lance
