Re: Preventing duplicate form submission

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Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:56:08 -0500

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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:

"Daniel Pitts" <googlegroupie@coloraura.com> writes:

Really? I never heard that. It might make sense, but I'd like to read
more about that. Can you give a citation? One of our tools does a lot
of multitasking, but if it should be done another way, I'd like to know
why/how.

I might be mistaken, I heard it sometime back in the bad old days of
EJB 1.1 and wrestling with Websphere 3; probably from some IBM
consultant.

So, a modified statement: You can use thread in applications running
in a container like Tomcat etc. *as long as they don't operate on
objects managed by the container's lifecycle mechanisms*.

servlet container : bad practice

EJB container : strictly forbidden

EJB 2.1 spec section 25.1.2:

The enterprise bean must not attempt to manage threads. The enterprise
bean must not attempt
to start, stop, suspend, or resume a thread, or to change a thread?s
priority or name. The enterprise
bean must not attempt to manage thread groups.

(it is in previous EJB specs as well)

Arne

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