On 9/29/07, Qingtian Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I apologize for this question as it must have been asked a million > times: I was unable to search the mailing list archive for this. > > Are all the "encode/decode" methods in commons-codec intended to be thread > safe? > > I peeked into the source code for a couple of those methods. They both > seem to be thread safe. But I'd rather ask here to make sure that's > the general intention when the code is written.
I think you'll find it varies. The various algorithms come from different sources, and though a common interface was put on them all, I doubt that time was spent to make sure they were all threadsafe. Looking at the objects, I see a few with private attributes that are set at more than just construction time - so very likely that one or another is thread unsafe. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
