Question about _jspService thread

[Adam Zedan]

I was reading that once a jsp page becaomes a full servlet all the next incoming requests to that serlvet are run in a separate _jspService thread.
All the code in the jsp page scriptlet goes in the _jspService

 
public void _jspService(HttpServletRequest request,  
      HttpServletResponse response)throws java.io.IOException, 
                                            ServletException 
{
   .....
    .......
}

I wanted to know that suppose a jsp page has a declaration tag such as <%! int i =0;%>
Now its equivalent code will be like

 
int i=0;
public void _jspService(HttpServletRequest request,  
      HttpServletResponse response)throws java.io.IOException, 
                                            ServletException 
{
   .....
    .......
}

So the next time another request comes in for the same jsp page (Which is a servlet now) part of my code was the scriptlet and there was also a declaration tag. Now I wanted to get an idea of what really happens when the _jspService thread execute the second time does it ignore the declaration tag since it already exists ??

[Bear Bibeault]

Scriptlets of any kind, especially declarations should no longer be used in modern JSP pages.

That said, declaration are evaluated at translation time and become part of the generated servlet at class level.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Adam Zedan wrote: Now I wanted to get an idea of what really happens when the _jspService thread execute the second time does it ignore the declaration tag since it already exists ??

only one instance is created for a servlet class. hence the i is shared among threads/requests!

[Bear Bibeault]

Which, of course, is one the easiest ways to create threading problems in your application.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Which, of course, is one the easiest ways to create threading problems in your application.

INDEED