Re: Object pooling
On 19-09-2010 14:13, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Robert Klemme wrote:
On 19.09.2010 15:49, Tom Anderson wrote:
I have some heavyweight objects that i would like to try pooling.
To be specific, they're JAX-WS (actually JBossWS) Service (and/or
port) objects. My observations so far are that they take hundreds of
milliseconds to make (if you count instantiation of the service,
instantiation of the port, and extra time taken the first time a
method on the port is called, it seems to be 200-800 ms, depending),
and that the spec doesn't guarantee that they're threadsafe (and as
it happens, i believe that in the JBossWS implementation, neither the
service nor the port is threadsafe).
Since you are using web services which is a pretty much standard way
of accessing business logic I would expect some prepackaged solutions
to be available.
So would i. I haven't come across any, though.
Axis allows you to define the scope of the service to request,
session or application.
The last will reuse. But it does require the service methods
to be individually thread safe. If that does not work for
you, then you need to look for another solution.
If not, you could wrap your client code in a JCA connector which then
will be pooled almost automatically by your application container
Man, it's all JCA today!
JCA does not seem to be a good fit for your requirement. You don't
need anything JCA specific. And you can do pools without it.
This is something that would make a sensible
general-purpose tool, i suppose. How would you access it from
application code? Bind some kind of ServicePool into the JNDI namespace
and look it up?
Yes.
Arne
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