A pretty simple way of doing this is to have your context init create a background thread. Have the background thread monitor a queue for jobs. Then, have the servlet place the job in the queue.
The background thread can either process the job itself, or create a worker thread to process the job. George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 > -----Original Message----- > From: David Balažic [mailto:xerc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 10:44 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Possible to do async processing? > > Hi! > > We are using tomcat 6.0 and now we have the need to trigger from the > service() method of a servlet. > > So: > - a request arrives > - the servlet triggers an async event > - servlet sends response and closes > - the async task is done (independent of servlet opeartion) > > Is there a way to do this? > > Or create threads by hand? > > Regards, > David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
