There's really no conflict between the statement, "every request gets it's own thread" and the use of thread pools. The point is that a given request in a serv

There's really no conflict between the statement, "every request gets it's own thread" and the use of thread pools. The point is that a given request in a servlet container is handled in it's own thread. That thread will probably come from a pool and be reused to handle another request of course, but that's sort of immaterial.