Can an Application Scope Variable be clustered?
Author: ras ras (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=1184726), Jul 8, 2004…. Personally I wouldnt use the the ServletContext as a parking place for global variables – I see it as a place for holding information relevant for the application infrastructure (paths, datasource names etc) – not for the application logic. I would place the data as a static instance variable on the servlet! …Is there a reason not to store data that “doesn’t change often” in an application scope variable? How is it different from storing it in a static variable defined in a servlet? In a “production environment”, I believe a servlet (and hence the static variable) exists until the webapp is restarted. IMHO, the advantages of storing in a static variable is “lazy-loading”.
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