Hi folks!
I'd like to know if and how it's possible to interrupt a running servlet, or better how to tell the servlet to suddenly do something else while it is running. In my case I'm letting the servlet invoke methods of a server-side API written in C. I need to be able to stop the running process started by this API at any time during its execution. This can be done by a "stop"-method in the C-API.
The question is now: Can I just send another HttpRequest to the servlet to trigger the invokation of the "stop"-method or is there some other magic to deal with? I assume the servlet's running in a seperate thread, right? If so, how can I access this thread?
The servlet container is a Tomcat 6.0 alongside an Apache 2.x.
Thanks in advance!
- Thomas
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