> Singletons should be used with caution and I don't think we want one > here, PDFBox would not be able to be used in a multi-threaded server > environment, which is currently the case. I've the same concerns about singletons in multi-threaded environments. There are a lot of situations which are suitable for this idea, but in this case it possibly won't work without a lot of changes to the code. But at this point this question is history, you've already found an easier and obviously working solution.:-)
Andreas Lehmkühler
