Hi, As far as I'm aware your not supposed to extend Thread in JEE. I've seen similar questions on Stack Overflow where it was suggested you may use your containers Thread pool. This sounds like a terrible idea for portability.
So take the following example. 1 A request for something specific is made to tomcat. That specific request needs to two actions. 2 Process the users request. 3 Notify another application over http Now If the notification fails in step 3 the users request still needs to process and not to error so we would like to send the notification as a background task. This is pretty easy with Threads but we shouldn't extend Thread according to the specifications. Questions: 1 Should this be delegated to the container? 2 If it should be delegated to the container how would I/we achieve this in tomcat 6. 3 If it shouldn't be delegated to the container where should I ask how to achieve a background task, because it isn't a tomcat question. (Disclaimer: If you really want to give me the answer I won't mind :P ) Regards, Wesley --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
