Is EPiServer threadsafe?

Question

I can't find any information about this on either www.episerver.com or world.episerver.com, anyone knows?

Ebb

Answer 1

thread safe is a nebulous concept. In this particular case, if you are sharing data between different requests, it is not. Otherwise by the nature of web requests it is.

Alleyn

Answer 2

From what I've seen Episerver uses two mechanisms to achieve thread-safety:

• Locking (when initializing expensive resources)
• Immutable data (when passing page data around)

Petit

I also like how EPiServer handles database deadlocks – Vania

Answer 3

Yes, per definition it is thread safe because it runs under a web service that uses threads to execute (so it has to be thread safe otherwise it is a bug, and there has been o few of those bugs – but no one reported for CMS R2 what I can see in the bug list).

Rainwater