Thank you for the replies, everyone!
All right, so then every instance inside the cluster does it's own initialization when it starts up? And by default a web application will have a single class loader per instance?
I'm also assuming all of the above applies to classes implementing the Singleton
pattern as well. But out of curiosity, what if a Singleton is stored in the ServletContext. Would marking it "serializable" be enough for changes to it to propogate to all instances?
Thank you,
Yuriy