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package javax.servlet;

/**
 * Ensures that servlets handle only one request at a time. This interface has no methods.
 * <p>
 * If a servlet implements this interface, you are <i>guaranteed</i> that no two threads will execute concurrently in
 * the servlet's <code>service</code> method. The servlet container can make this guarantee by synchronizing access to a
 * single instance of the servlet, or by maintaining a pool of servlet instances and dispatching each new request to a
 * free servlet.
 * <p>
 * Note that SingleThreadModel does not solve all thread safety issues. For example, session attributes and static
 * variables can still be accessed by multiple requests on multiple threads at the same time, even when
 * SingleThreadModel servlets are used. It is recommended that a developer take other means to resolve those issues
 * instead of implementing this interface, such as avoiding the usage of an instance variable or synchronizing the block
 * of the code accessing those resources. This interface is deprecated in Servlet API version 2.4.
 *
 * @deprecated As of Java Servlet API 2.4, with no direct replacement.
 */
@Deprecated
public interface SingleThreadModel {
    // No methods
}