thoerup/asyncsamples/SimpleThreading.java

/* this example old-school Thread / Runnable's - which should under no circumstances be used from a java EE environment.
 * 
 *  This is only for documentation purposes .... if you need to run async code, you should investigate some of the other examples
 *  
 *  There's no guarantee that this will ever work on your chosen java container.
 */

package dk.thoerup.asyncsamples;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class SimpleThreading extends HttpServlet {

        static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( SimpleThreading.class.getName() );
        
        class Worker implements Runnable {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                        DummyWork.doWork();
                }               
        }
        
        protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
                response.getWriter().write("Starting async thread");
                
                Thread t = new Thread( new Worker() );
                t.start();
        }
                
}
1	/* this example old-school Thread / Runnable's - which should under no circumstances be used from a java EE environment.
2	*
3	* This is only for documentation purposes .... if you need to run async code, you should investigate some of the other examples
4	*
5	* There's no guarantee that this will ever work on your chosen java container.
6	*/
7
8	package dk.thoerup.asyncsamples;
9
10	import java.io.IOException;
11	import java.util.logging.Logger;
12
13	import javax.servlet.ServletException;
14	import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
15	import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
16	import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
17
18	public class SimpleThreading extends HttpServlet {
19
20	static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( SimpleThreading.class.getName() );
21
22	class Worker implements Runnable {
23	@Override
24	public void run() {
25	DummyWork.doWork();
26	}
27	}
28
29	protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
30	response.getWriter().write("Starting async thread");
31
32	Thread t = new Thread( new Worker() );
33	t.start();
34	}
35
36	}