how the store and retrieve in ServletContext happens??

[j.gohel]

Hello Sir,
I am developing a chat application thats in Swing & servlets Now I am able to authenticate user and I am using ArrayList to maintain the names of the user globally my storing it in ServletContext

How to store and retrieve ArrayList from Servletcontext

And another thing is that we are having personal chat(1-to-1) also. But how to use the thread model is not known to us as we have not faced such a situation before

So if you could suggest some example code or snippets ot certain links then it would be of great help to us

Thanks
Regards
Monarch

[Belisarius]

As for ServletContext, it has get and setAttribute() methods.

In regards to thread model, now you're getting into complex ground that is *way* beyond the boundaries of a "newbie" site. You'll be happy to know that Java 1.5 gave programmers new tools to deal with multi-threaded code, but I'd just head out and buy some books. You're basically talking about load-balancing, which opens a whole new can of worms, as you need to make sure the data is transmitted between each of the threads.