title: Is it safe to interrupt tomcat thread
body: <p>I am in a wierd situation. In my web-server (tomcat), on web request, I basically need to cancel a previous request. I have a reference to the thread that was executing the previous request. So I can directly interrupt that thread and the node will do the rest.</p>
  
  <p>I know you are not suppose to interrupt the thread which you do not own. But is it safe to interrupt tomcat thread in this case? What can be the other way? Maintaining own thread pool is waste of resources and ovehead</p>