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Using ThreadLocal for setting data in a WebApplication

 
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Hello ,

I had purposely posted this question in Servlets ,as i want to map it to the Web Environment.

What advantage i can get setting the data in a ThreadLocal . AS per docs this says that the data can be extracted by only a particular Thread . Please tell me how this is possible ??

and how this is different from setting it in a session/request.


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Using ThreadLocal, that means data is local to thread, you can have thread-safety.
 
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Thanks for the response .

Can you please provide me an example where this would be suitable (Setting the data for a Thread )

Thanks in advance .
 
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I see no advantage to using thread-local storage. What problem are you trying to solve that requires this?
 
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The advantage would be
data can be more secured know.

 
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RaviNada Kiran wrote:The advantage would be
data can be more secured know.


I have no idea what you mean by this.
 
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Container allocates each request in a web application with a new thread, creating one or selecting one available from thread pool.

So it doesn't makes any sense to store the data into ThreadLocal wrt web application.

Advantages, I dont feel wrt web app.




 
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Thanks a lot for your nice explanation.
 
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