Basically, how long is an instance of a servlet around for? I am kind of guessing it is session scope. However, I suppose it could have some sort of timeout or garbage collection to remove old instances.
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setting)init()
method of the servlet is calledservice()
method being called by multiple threads). That's why it is not advisable to have any synchronization in it, and you should avoid instance variables of the servletdestroy()
method is called.