Additional thread on a POJO called from a Servlet - What would happen?

Hi all,

Wondering what would happen in the following circumstance. What I am about to describe has just been set up so looking for a better understanding of what would happen.

1) Access www.website.com/mypage from my personal computer (the website is hosted on a server in some distant land somewhere)
2) 'mypage' maps to MyPageServlet.class
3) This Servlet then calls 'MyPojo.class' in another thread as the full duration of this tasks is ~10hrs.

What would happen if I was to close my browser and my personal computer? Would the additional thread within 'MyPojo.class' stop running? I am guessing not, since once this has started then it has started and needs to finish.

Just wanted to check with the experts since I don't want this process to stop half way through if I turn my computer off :-) (would have been ideal for me to think through this before running the program mind... but hey)

Thanks
Michael

Nothing you do on the local system will have an effect on the thread.

Whether it's a good idea or not is another question. To make sure that the web app is always responsive, I almost always delegate intensive or long processing to a daemon program.

Thanks for the quick reply. Good to have it confirmed that it wouldn't have any impact.

As for if it is a good idea or not... at the moment it doesn't harm performance as the web app hasn't got high traffic. As traffic / load increases then I will likely look at placing this long running program on a separate web server (e.g. long-running-program.website.com). Not got experience with the Daemon stuff at the moment, but it is good to know that is an option as well (I'll add it to the reading list :-) )

Thanks
Michael

You could also use the Java task execution framework