Thread safety issues come from the use of static fields in a class, not static methods.
-David Foo Shyn Chung wrote: > Hi all, > > This may sounds stupid, please spare me =p. > > I've noticed that methods in the Services class are written as static and > i'd come across a discussion thread that talked about why it is so. > (http://osdir.com/ml/user.ofbiz.apache.org/2009-09/msg00284.html) > > However, there are times that a method in the Service class is either too > long or there are common codes between 2 methods that i would like to > refactor them into using a new method. Since all the methods need to be > static, so the new smaller methods that i'm creating will be in static as > well. I wonder whether this would cause the thread-safe issue concerning > the static state of the methods? > > Thanx > FooShyn >
