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Good article, but is the statement, "it is illegal to create your own threads in a J2EE container", 100% correct? I am not saying that it's not - I would just like to know the answer. I have heard many people say that J2EE applications should not spawn threads, but I can not find any documentation stating this in the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition Specification. The Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, Version 2.1, does explicitly say that an enterprise bean must not attempt to manage threads. So, this would lead me to believe that a J2EE application can spawn threads.

Good article, but is the statement, "it is illegal to create your own threads in a J2EE container", 100% correct? I am not saying that it's not - I would just like to know the answer. I have heard many people say that J2EE applications should not spawn threads, but I can not find any documentation stating this in the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition Specification. The Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, Version 2.1, does explicitly say that an enterprise bean must not attempt to manage threads. So, this would lead me to believe that a J2EE application can spawn threads.

Also, if you must have a reason why threads would be used, then imagine that ten calls must be made to a server to retrieve values that are not dependent on each other. It would make sense to do these ten calls asynchronously.


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