[android-developers] Re: SimpleDateFormat PathClassLoader NullPointerException quandary

2009-03-17 Thread Torgny Bjers
I synchronized the method and it all seems to be working fine now. Thanks for helping me with this rather obscure error. On Mar 16, 2009 7:31 PM, "sm1" wrote: SimpleDateFormat is known to not be thread-safe, and it's instances must be either unique to each thread or otherwise be synchronized.

[android-developers] Re: SimpleDateFormat PathClassLoader NullPointerException quandary

2009-03-16 Thread sm1
SimpleDateFormat is known to not be thread-safe, and it's instances must be either unique to each thread or otherwise be synchronized. happened to me a while back. serge On Mar 16, 7:15 pm, Torgny wrote: > Yeah, the code is in its own thread. It's in a class that is > instantiated in the threa

[android-developers] Re: SimpleDateFormat PathClassLoader NullPointerException quandary

2009-03-16 Thread Torgny
Yeah, the code is in its own thread. It's in a class that is instantiated in the thread. I tried added synchronized to the method that generates the date, and so far I haven't seen it crash at all. Will try with a loop as well. I am still a bit new to the whole Java thing. On Mar 16, 6:42 pm, "ca

[android-developers] Re: SimpleDateFormat PathClassLoader NullPointerException quandary

2009-03-16 Thread carl.whalley
Can you show the code? It sounds like the GET isn't relevant. Is your code in its own thread? If so is it synchronised? You should be able to write a test which iterates 1000 times just performing the format, and catch it. -- Android Academy http://www.androidacademy.com On Mar 16, 6:31 pm, Torgn