Starting new threads from a servlet

Question

Hi
I read somewhere that starting new threads from a servlet is not supported in the future releases of J2EE .
Any one aware of this.
I have a listener program started as a new thread from the init method of a servlet which is set to load on startup.
I have to think about another way to do this if this is not suppported in the future releases
any comments

Answer 1

Dr clap
Actually I was getting some warning messages in my websphere server console when I tried to make JDBC connections from the thread I opened in the servlet.
Everthing works fine but with the warning messages,
Then someone from IBM answered me in one of the forums quote
Cause: These messages are being produced due to an
"unsupported" environment. When application is
spinning its own threads from an EJB, spinning a
thread and accessing a database is not supported (per
the J2EE specification). One exception to this rule is
if a Servlet is spinning its own threads and accessing
a database. The J2EE specification is not clear on
this, so WebSphere Application Server 5.0 must allow
for it at this time. IBM is working with Sun to
clarify this in the specification, so eventually (i.e.
J2EE 1.4) spun threads from a Servlet accessing a
database outside of a transaction will not be
supported either.
Since we don't want to promote the usage of these
"naked" threads accessing databases, we are producing
the warning messages. Although they may be filling up
the logs, we feel that these are necessary to warn the
user that they are doing something not in-line with
the intended usage. Customer should consider changing
their application to comply with the
J2EE specification.
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