When I read this from the blog article "Use a thread local variable (where each thread has a separate value) when you want to carry a value along without explicitly passing it from method to method down the call stack" it appears...]]> Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:27:37 -0400 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:27:37 -0400 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:27:37 -0400 Jul 28, 2006 James Watson 4 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41473 When I read this from the blog article "Use a thread local variable (where each thread has a separate value) when you want to carry a value along without explicitly passing it from method to method down the call stack" it appears that the...]]> Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:03:32 -0400 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:03:32 -0400 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:03:32 -0400 Jul 28, 2006 Bob Lee 5 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41473

If I can start from sratch with a new Servlet spec, surely. Define the spec such that you can get the current request at any point just as you can get the current thread at any point. Can you explain why you think this would not...]]> Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:04:47 -0400 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:04:47 -0400 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:04:47 -0400 Jul 28, 2006 James Watson 6 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41473 If I can start from sratch with a new Servlet spec, surely. Define the spec such that you can get the current request at any point just as you can get the current thread at any point. Can you explain why you think this would not be...]]> Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:57:07 -0400 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:57:07 -0400 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:57:07 -0400 Jul 28, 2006 John Brand 7 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41473 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:01:04 -0400 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:01:04 -0400 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:01:04 -0400 Jul 27, 2006 Keats Kirsch 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41473

So are you suggesting that this is the only solution to the context propagation problem? Couldn't foresight have avoided the need to use ThreadLocals?

Can you outline a solution that (a) doesnt require...]]> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:07:55 -0400 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:07:55 -0400 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:07:55 -0400 Jul 27, 2006 James Watson 8 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41473 So are you suggesting that this is the only solution to the context propagation problem? Couldn't foresight have avoided the need to use ThreadLocals?

...]]> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:55:09 -0400 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:55:09 -0400 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:55:09 -0400 Jul 27, 2006 John Brand 9 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41473 ... in a recent discussion that I've had about ThreadLocal's someone said that it breaks OOP principles. ... well that's debatable but still so what? OOP does not provide allthe times the most ellegant and efficient solutions. This is one of...]]> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:22:43 -0400 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:22:43 -0400 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:22:43 -0400 Jul 27, 2006 James Watson 10 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41473

Using ThreadLocal would only make sense if you can't control what threads are being started [...]

Which is the case whenever you code something that runs in an application server.