Originally posted by Edward Farrow:
class RequestProcessor
{
public static void handleRequest(Request r)
{
//perform operations on r using variables local to handleRequest method
}
}
if i had multiple threads each with their own Request object calling RequestProcessor.handleRequest(request) simultaneously would there be threading issues or threads conflicting? Would there be any benefit making handleRequest a synchronized method?
Hi, I think if the data and objects in a method are part of the
thread context you wouldn't need to use mutual exclusion or locks. In this case request is thread specific so you shouldn't have to. However you could synchronize on objects within methods that are global (visible to other threads) and problems of concurrancy exist, ie only one thread should be allowed to excecute the critical section on these objects at one time.
Ratna.