The method is only called from getLogMessages() I think it is unlikely
that could be used in multiple threads. Not really worth worrying about
at this point in time.
Mark
"Deadman, Hal" <Hal.Deadman@Tallan.com> wrote on 01/06/2005 12:23:57 PM:
> I haven't looked closely at the code, but is there any chance that two
> threads would call the parse method at the same time on the same
> instance of SDF (since it is static)? With Eclipse letting you
> background operations, it seems like it could happen. It's tempting to
> use a static SDF but I have seen exceptions in other applications if the
> parse method is called twice on the same DateFormat instance at the same
> time. It's fairly common in web applications since there are many
> concurrent users.
>
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp09263.html
> "As an example of this pitfall, the class java.text.SimpleDateFormat is
> not thread-safe, but it wasn't until the 1.4 JDK that this was
> documented in the Javadoc. How many developers mistakenly created a
> static instance of SimpleDateFormat and used it from multiple threads,
> unaware that their programs were not going to behave correctly under
> heavy load? Don't do this to your customers or colleagues!"
>
>
> Granted, there is no heavy load going on, and it may be extremely
> unlikely that it would happen, and it looks like any parse exception is
> getting eaten by the code anyway, but for some reason I feel compelled
> to comment....
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Phippard [mailto:MarkP@softlanding.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:32 AM
> > To: dev@subclipse.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: error in svnClientAdapter command-line xml date parsing.
> >
> > It seems like we could just add this then for a patch. It initializes
> the
> > TimeZone in the xmlFormat formatter when it is constructed.
> >
> >
> > Index:
> >
> C:/workspaces/subclipse/svnClientAdapter/src/main/org/tigris/subversion/
> sv
> > nclientadapter/commandline/Helper.java
> > ===================================================================
> > ---
> >
> C:/workspaces/subclipse/svnClientAdapter/src/main/org/tigris/subversion/
> sv
> > nclientadapter/commandline/Helper.java
> > (revision 1186)
> > +++
> >
> C:/workspaces/subclipse/svnClientAdapter/src/main/org/tigris/subversion/
> sv
> > nclientadapter/commandline/Helper.java
> > (working copy)
> > @@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
> > // 2003-10-13T12:54:42.957948Z
> > private static DateFormat xmlFormat =
> > new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
> > + // Initialize timezone to GMT for xmlFormat
> > + static {
> > +
> xmlFormat.setTimeZone(java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
> > + }
> >
> > /**
> > * A non-instantiable class
> >
> >
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