The magical warmth deep in the core of Narbondel—the natural stone pillar that served as the city's clock—was climbing toward midpoint as the unseen sun reached its zenith.
Since then, interest in the U-bend has been growing. Its effect on happiness is significant-about half as much, from the nadir of middle age to the elderly peak, as that of unemployment.
If the number of active threads is sharply fluctuating or very low for the expected workload, the requests are not reaching the Web container in an orderly fashion.
Message inspector pattern - for performing XML message-related tasks entirely within the Web services tier, that is, processing messages after they have arrived at a service.