Question

I am new in Servlet, I used the following code to read some inputStream,

class MyServlet implements Servlet{
  void service(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res){
  InputStream inA, inB, inC;
   //...
   inA.read(); // May block
   inB.read(); // May block
   inC.read(); // May block
   // ...
   }
 }

How to let the servlet container (Tomcat) interrupts/destroys MyServlet after some configurable time. And in this case which method(s) will it call?

thanks in advance,,,

Answer 1

You don’t call those methods, the container does.

I’d wonder why you would do this. Do you really want to re-read those files with every request? If you need the contents, I’d prefer to see you read them in the init method and cache them.