Hi Tom, you are right that the XML best practice document should point out that ClassDescriptorResolver is not thread safe. Sorry for that confusion. I'll take care to update docs or make ClassDescriptorResolver thread safe for next release.
Regards Ralf Carey, Tom schrieb: > This link below talks about reusing ClassDescriptorResolvers to achieve best > performance. Is this link suggesting that it is thread-safe? If so, maybe > this page should be updated. > > http://www.castor.org/xml-best-practice.html > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ralf Joachim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 2:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [castor-user] ClassDescriptorResolver & thread safety > > Hello Michael, > > as far as I can see when looking at the source of XMLClassDescriptorResolver > it isn't thread safe by design. While I think there should be no problem if > all ClassDescriptor's are loaded before starting to un-/marshal, I'd suggest > to go safe and use them in a thread safe way. E.g. one CDR per thread or by > implementing a CDR pool. > > Regards > Ralf > > Michael Crozier schrieb: > >>Hello, >> >>As outlined in the best practices document, I'm using >>ClassDescriptorResolver to load and cache mappings. I understand that >>Marshaller and Unmarshaller objects are not thread safe, but >>ClassDescriptorResolver has no mention of thread-safety. I am using >>this mechanism to load mappings from String objects and well as from > > Files. > >>Is it thread-safe to share a single ClassDescriptorResolver instance >>between many threads, in which new marshalling objects are created > > per-invocation? > >>Many thanks, >> >> Michael >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from this list please visit: >> >> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email -- Syscon Ingenieurbüro für Meß- und Datentechnik GmbH Ralf Joachim Raiffeisenstraße 11 D-72127 Kusterdingen Germany Tel. +49 7071 3690 52 Mobil: +49 173 9630135 Fax +49 7071 3690 98 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.syscon-informatics.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email

