I whould have probably mentioned that i want the servlet to constantly access the database on the background in an infinite loop. Is this making any sense ?
public class BackgroundOperation extends HttpServlet {
protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
while (TRUE) {
query database
WAIT 15 seconds
}
}
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
}
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
}
public void init()
{
Thread BO = new Thread(this);
}
}