The common use case is that a Servlet or JSP needs to agrigate data from multipe sources and display them in one page. Doing your own threading a managed environement like a J2EE container is inapropriate and should never be done in appliaction level code. In this case the WorkManager API can be used to retieve the data in parallel. |
Weblogic Server | WorkManager with BEA Weblogic Download PDF |
Apache Tomcat and Other Servers | FooWorkManager with Tomcat |