Shing Wai,
that is a reasonable summary.
I agree the ISE is a good addition.
On 19 December 2014 at 04:23, Shing Wai Chan <shing.wai.chan_at_oracle.com>
wrote:
> Let me try to summarize the discussion.
>
> 1. There is a concern on whether FilterChain#doFilter can be called by a
> thread other than the container invocation thread.
> Similar question for RequestDispatcher#dispatch.
> 2. What is the return values of #getContextPath, #getServletPath,
> #getPathInfo in case of async?
>
>
> For (1),
> From Servlet 3.1: A Filter and the target servlet or resource at the end
> of the filter chain must execute in the same invocation thread.
> This implicitly implies that FilterChain#doFilter should not be called by
> a thread other than the container invocation thread.
> We would like to make this more explicit in the spec by adding the
> following in javadoc of FilterChain#doFilter
> @throw IllegalStateException if it is invoked by a thread other
> than the container invocation thread
>
> Any comments?
> Shing Wai Chan
>
>
>
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