From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" Date: 2003-10-04T11:25:20+09:00 Subject: Re: webrick, threads, and i/o Hi, > From: "Ara.T.Howard" > Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:12 AM > if i want to write a webrick application that mounts many servlets do i need > to be concerned that, if one of the servlets blocks on i/o, the entire > (threaded) webserver will also be blocked? No. WEBrick creates worker thread for each request. So, take care if you mount a servlet factory which returns singleton servlet instance. It runs under MT condition. Regards, // NaHi