Servlet Threads
In the AuditFilter example, several lines of code were encased in a synchronize block. This was done to ensure that the counter would be correctly incremented if more than one access is made to the page at the same time. Without the synchronize block, it is possible for two (or possibly more) servlet threads to obtain the counter value before it has been incremented, thereby losing one of the increments. In this case, failing to count one page hit may not be a significant problem. There are other situations where inconsistent data updates may be important.
Shared resources, such as files and databases, can also present concurrency issues when accessed by more than one servlet at a time. Servlets must be written to be multi-thread ...
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