Quoting Nifty Music <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks Craig! You certainly confirmed my suspicions, although I would have > guessed that I could've gotten away with sharing the SimpleDateFormat > variable since it wouldn't depend on any values coming in from request > objects. Could you perhaps shed some light on why it wouldn't make sense to > share it? >
Because the internal implementation of SimpleDateFormat uses instance variables during parsing and formatting, so it's not thread safe :-). Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
