I mentioned yesterday that I thought I had read a comment by Bruce Eckel suggesting that String.intern() might be avoided.
I could not find the reference in either the 2nd or 3rd editions of "Thinking In Java". A couple of observations from some research: 1) There were some problems in Java 1.1 and before. 2) There may be problems in non-Sun implementations (KAffe...) 3) There have been discussions in the SAX2 list and other places about using String.ntern() and I notice that interning is a feature of SAX2 that can be turned on. There is a lot of support for the technique and I suspect some of the objections are of the theological type. 4) The property strings in Peter West's code start life as string literals which are interned by the Java Language Spec. So they are all ready present in the table. Some of the benefit of interning can be turned on in the parser. -- John Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
