Re: Tomcat Multi-Threading

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:39:16 -0500
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On 1/31/2013 3:47 AM, lipska the kat wrote:

On 31/01/13 03:21, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 1/30/2013 5:48 PM, Lew wrote:

lipska the kat wrote:

Lew wrote:


[snip]

What we are skeptical about is you claim that all Java apps
are multi threaded. That seems to be based on a rather unsual
definition of multi threaded.


I think this is the point. What exactly is a multi-threaded application.

The OP asked a question re Tomcat

When you write a web app you have no conventional Java entry point
(public static void main(String[] args), you are actually extending the
server. IIRC the Tomcat docs explicitly advise against instantiating new
threads. I don't think that anyone would argue against the fact that
*Tomcat* is a multi-threaded application. Does this make your web-app
multi-threaded ... Well yes it does but only as a *side effect* of the
way the container manages multiple requests for the same resource, if
you extend a multi-threaded application then by implication your
application is multi-threaded.

That's my view of things anyway.

Applications with a single public static void main(String args[]) entry
point are different. If you don't explicitly create new Threads then I
don't think you would call your application multi-threaded. The fact the
the JVM uses multiple threads to do houskeeping tasks is an
implementation detail. The clincher is that the JVM isn't a Java
application (in the way that Tomcat is). There is a difference of course
between green and native threads but that discussion is beyond the scope
of this document :-)

Or maybe you disagree


I don't think there is much disagreement about the Tomcat web app.

The discussion is whether all Java apps are multi threaded.

And I think we agree on that topic.

Arne

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