Question involving servlet output and synchronization

Is it a bad idea to synchronize the output of a servlet, by creating a singleton class which handles the html?

Yes. Unnecessary synchronization will result in poor performance. Is this related to your other synchronization question?

Yes they are all related

So, how would one synchronize parts of a , servlet?
using the synchronized key word?

Don't use synchronized at all in servlets. Thread management is up to the container. You can get some way to the same behaviour that synchronized would give you by having your servlet implement the (now deprecated) interface javax.servlet.SingleThreadModel. I'd be curious to know why you need this functionality?

If your servlet has an instance variable that must only be accessed by one request Thread at a time, of course you use synchronized code. When designing a servlet one normally strives to reduce or eliminate the necessity for synchronized access, but sometimes it is necessary.
Bill