Hi Max,
I don't see any particular reason for this. Maybe it's just a "precaution". It
seems to me it's the only field
of the URL class set directly (without setter) from an outside.
Does it hurt performance a lot? In what cases?
-Pavel
> On 25 Nov 2014, at 12:02, Wang Weijun <weijun.w...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> I am benchmarking security manager and notice this
>
> protected synchronized InetAddress getHostAddress(URL u) {
> if (u.hostAddress != null)
> return u.hostAddress;
>
> String host = u.getHost();
> if (host == null || host.equals("")) {
> return null;
> } else {
> try {
> u.hostAddress = InetAddress.getByName(host);
> } catch (UnknownHostException ex) {
> return null;
> } catch (SecurityException se) {
> return null;
> }
> }
> return u.hostAddress;
> }
>
> Is there any reason why the method is synchronized? Why not simply
> "synchronized (u)"?
>
> Thanks
> Max
>
