How does apache soap deal with multiple requests?

[Darren Marvin <dj...@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk>]

It seems reasonable to believe that a web service will have more than one request at a time. My query is how does the apache-soap server deal with multiple requests. If you use it in combination with Tomcat does it simply follow Tomcat's rules where nothing is thread safe and it is down to the developer to handle concurrency issues and load balancing. CORBA can use various concurrency models dependent on the implementation including thread pools, thread per request etc. How does apache soap deal with these issues? These issues are important if you are going to design architectures that use web services.

Thanks in advance.

Darren Marvin 
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