Thanks. I just made it non-static as a quick-fix.
On 26 January 2011 17:21, Dr Heinz M. Kabutz <[email protected]>wrote: > You could stick the instance in a ThreadLocal, that allows you to reuse it > without worrying about concurrency. > > Or you could use the Apache date parser. > > Regards > > Heinz > -- > Dr Heinz M. Kabutz (PhD CompSci) > Author of "The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter" > Sun Java Champion > IEEE Certified Software Development Professionalhttp://www.javaspecialists.eu > Tel: +30 69 72 850 460 > Skype: kabutz > > > > On 1/26/11 3:44 PM, Jason Purcell wrote: > > I just read the same thing somewhere else now. > > Always thought it was a good idea to re-use it, but I guess it's not. > > Thanks for the info!! > > I will implement the changes and see how things go. > > On 26 January 2011 15:41, Bruce Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Jason, the SimpleDateFormat class is not thread safe. If you were not >> aware of this you may have multiple threads accessing the the dateFormat >> instance, and this is exactly the sort of error that can occur. >> >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Jason Purcell <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi there... >>> >>> I am getting intermittent exceptions when parsing dates. >>> >>> My formatter is declared as follows: >>> >>> SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); >>> dateFormat.setLenient(false); >>> >>> These are some of the exceptions that have been thrown: >>> >>> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "02/04/1980" >>> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "20/06/1985" >>> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "05/03/1990" >>> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "14/09/1973" >>> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "25/01/2011" >>> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "25/01/2011" >>> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "09/07/1965" >>> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "07/10/1974" >>> java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "27/08/1966" >>> >>> My unit tests pass when using the "unparseable" dates above, and in >>> production dates parse correctly basically 99.999% of the time in the >>> relevant piece of code. >>> >>> As an example, the following dates parse correctly: >>> >>> 07/06/1978 >>> 14/06/1981 >>> 04/01/1988 >>> 03/10/1965 >>> 12/09/1977 >>> 30/01/1985 >>> >>> Has anyone come across this before? >>> >>> Is there a problem with using SimpleDateFormat.setLenient() perhaps? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jason. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "CTJUG Tech" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<ctjug-tech%[email protected]> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en >>> For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ >>> For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CTJUG Tech" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<ctjug-tech%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en >> For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ >> For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CTJUG Tech" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en > For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ > For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CTJUG Tech" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<ctjug-tech%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en > For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ > For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Tech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/
