A Design doubt from a Greenhorn

[Ravi Kiran Va]

A Design doubt from a Greenhorn

Need to create a Thread that will run for every 15 seconds and update the Cache .

so that the servlets will pick up the data from this cache instead of querying database.


what is the appropiate place to create this Thread ?
For this I was thinking in this way :

shall i start this Thread inside a ServletContextListener ?? will this be a appropiate place ?

Can any one suggest me a better approach or tell me if I am missing something.

Any help is really appreciated

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Ravi,
I'd take a different approach - when the cache is called see if the data is 15 seconds old and if so, get new data. That way the database wouldn't need to be called if there is no activity for 15 seconds.

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Thanks for the prompt reply Jeanne ,

what would you suggest if the Thread needs to run for every 5 seconds . Is my approach correct .

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Ravi Pavanv wrote:What would you suggest if the Thread needs to run for every 5 seconds . Is my approach correct .

I'd use a Timer/Scheduler if I had to run something every 5 seconds. I wouldn't do that here though.

As for whether your approach is correct - it depends on the usage patterns of your app. It's not a right or wrong type of thing.

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Thank you Jeanne