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[venkatesh rajmendram]

Can a servlet container maintain a pool of servlet instances (same servlet) ?...I guess it can but how can it be done ? do we need to specify something in the deployment descriptor ?
Any help is appreciated...
Thanks
Venkatesh
[ January 09, 2004: Message edited by: venkatesh rajmendram ]

[Vijay S. Rathore]

At any point in time the servelet container has only one instance of servlet.
There is no question of servlet pool arises here.

[venkatesh rajmendram]

Hi...
As a matter of fact you can have many instances of same servlet at same time in servlet container. You have to specify the same servlet multiple times in the deployment descriptor...web.xml
- Venkatesh
[ January 09, 2004: Message edited by: venkatesh rajmendram ]

[Jacky Chow]

Originally posted by Vijay S Rathore:
At any point in time the servelet container has only one instance of servlet.
There is no question of servlet pool arises here.

hi Vijay,
You may search the word "pool" in Servlet spec, you will see that a container is allowed to use a pool of servlet instances to improve the performace!
Venkatesh, the implementation of servlet instance pool is specific to container, containers may maintain a pool for servlet, but it is not required, some containers may allow you to maintain the pool by setting, but some may not allowed, you must read the container's documentation to get the information about this!

[Vijay S. Rathore]

Thanks Jacky Chow for the information