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java thread pools

Most of server based applications, like Web servers, database servers, or mail servers, are responsible for controlling a large number of tasks that arrive from some remote source it can be fast task.
Any request can received by the servers in any manner, which can be from a network protocol (HTTP, FTP, or POP), through a JMS queue, MQ, myth be by polling a database or any socket based connection. It’s often the case in server applications that the processing of each individual task is short-lived and the number of requests is large.
One simplistic model for building a server application would be to create a new thread each time a request arrives and service the request in the new thread.
This approach actually works fine for prototyping, but has significant disadvantages that would become apparent if you tried to deploy a server application that worked this way. One of the disadvantages of the thread-per-request approach is that the overhead of creating a new thread for each request is significant; a server that created a new thread for each request would spend more time and consume more system resources creating and destroying threads than it would processing actual user requests.
A thread pool offers a solution to thread life-cycle overhead and the resource thrashing. By reusing threads for multiple tasks, the thread-creation overhead is spread over many tasks. As a bonus, because the thread already exists when a request arrives, the delay introduced by thread creation is eliminated. Thus, the request can be serviced immediately, rendering the application more responsive. Furthermore, by properly tuning the number of threads in the thread pool, you can prevent resource thrashing by forcing any requests in excess of a certain threshold to wait until a thread is available to process it.

Dear Ehsaniara, many thanks for your invaluable contribution to this project. I don't see much Java stuff in there so may we point you to the Thread pool pattern article... The only intriguing thing is that your bit is not as well 'written' as the source you took it from... AR 18 December 2009, 14:36 (UTC)

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Redirecting WebLogic Server to Oracle Fusion Middleware

This redirection was done without any discussion. It is kind of unfair as there is a separate page for IBM WebSphere Application Server :) 160.34.126.38 (talk) 11:33, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Question: Is not WebLogic different from Websphere? Peaceray (talk) 15:42, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

They are kind of rival application servers. Weblogic from Oracle (earlier from BEA), Websphere is from IBM. Both are alive. It is not fair to have separate page for one and redirecting the other to a group of related software. 49.207.62.227 (talk) 02:29, 19 July 2025 (UTC)