Hi Felix
> I am neither an export on any Memory Model issue, but I always thought > that the construct > > fieldX = new SomeType(zzz); > > would be ok, because fieldX would only be set after the SomeType > instance has properly been setup and ready for use. I would have thought the same if I had not learned it differently... again, there is some black magic in the Java air ;) I do not understand this mechanism in the memory model but I would be thankful if someone could provide an explanation. The only thing I did is a pattern matching between the lazy initialization in SimpleWebDavServlet and the two books mentioned above. Both state that this implementation is not thread safe. > > > Have you encountered a concrete problem with this or is a pure academic > discussion ? This is pure academic, but I crunch multi-threading bugs rather on this level than tracking bugs that just happen "now and then". Marc
