How Servlet Requests are handled by Webserver internallly

[satishbsk kumar]

Hi All,
Please clarify whether Server creates new thread(Servlet Instance) for each request.

Rgds,
Satish

[Sebastian Janisch]

Unless you implement the SingleThreadModel, the container creates a new Thread for each incoming request. Note however that it does not create a new servlet instance, it works on the same unless you have different mappings for one servlet.
So watch out for thread safety.

BTW.. SingleThreadModel is deprecated and should not be used.

[David Newton]

Also, in the interests of completeness, a "new thread" and "new servlet instance" are not the same thing.