Singleton in a cluster environment

If you create a singleton, you're going to get one instance per JVM (or possibly per classloader if you're doing something fancy).

So on two different servers (which implies 2 different JVMs) you will get two different instances.

If you're saying these instances are being stored in a replicating cache then it would depend on the design of the caching software as to how it would handle this.

Doug

thanks

One the contrary if i have one weblogic applicaiton server and i have 2 WAR projects deployed in it. Both the WAR projects have the same singleton java class. Will the singleton instance be in each of the WAR project or just one instance be used across both the WARS?

thanks

I think if you have 2 WAR files you will end up with 2 instances of the singleton.  That's because the goal is for each WAR to be completely isolated from the other - they shouldn't be able to communicate or affect each other.  If they shared the same singletons that wouldn't be the case.

Doug

Alright,  but don't the two WARs share the same jvm if they are both deployed in the same application server?

Thx

Aahh, its clear now. So there are two aspects to it,
Class loaders and
The JVM itself

thanks.

So I guess each (WAR)web-project will have its own class loader which will
Load the classes of that web-project when application server starts?

Yes that's right.  It allows the container to keep each project separate - which is usually the correct behavior.

Doug

thanks
can you please help me with this question
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27734431/threadsafety-in-jsp-servlet.html