Russell Beattie

There's an article on O'Reilly's OnJava right now about Servlet Best Practices. With all this talk of going back to basics (not using EJBs, using POJOs, etc.), this is a very good topic.

This article briefly covers different MVC frameworks and talks about not overloading your servlet sessions which are both pretty basic if you've been around server-side Java for any time. But the stuff I thought was interesting was an example for serving up files without the overhead of the PrintWriter for a 50% improvement in performance, which was new to me. The article also includes a nice example class for loading configuration files into servlets which is worth a gander. And also it says, don't ever use SingleThreadModel, which they say is a horrible mistake in the servlet API. I've never used it, so I guess that's good... ;-) This is good stuff to know.

Anyways, interesting reading with some neat tips or even just as a review. I'll be interested to see the next installment.

-Russ