Starting a threadpool in a servlet container

Question

I have a servlet S which handles callbacks from a 3rd party site.

The callback invocations happen in a specific order. Thus, I need to queue them.

I propos

Answer 1

Oh, one other thought: the one thing you DO NOT WANT TO DO is to try managing your own thread pools inside a servlet container; it can do thread pooling a lot better than you can, UNLESS you mess with it.