Re: [OT] using static helper classes within servlets

2009-06-15 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, On 6/14/2009 5:43 PM, David Blevins wrote: Regardless of that choice we will still handle sychronization of instantiation, so double-check-locking or other things will not be necessary. NB: DCL does not work in Java. Period.

Re: [OT] using static helper classes within servlets

2009-06-15 Thread Tim Funk
correction: The double checked idiom was fixed in java5. The variable which is checked needs to be declared as volatile. The link states that at the bottom. -Tim Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David, On 6/14/2009 5:43 PM, David Blevins wrote:

RE: [OT] using static helper classes within servlets

2009-06-15 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: Re: [OT] using static helper classes within servlets NB: DCL does not work in Java. Period. While that statement was true for 1.4 and prior JVMs, 1.5 actually made DCL work. http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java

Re: [OT] using static helper classes within servlets

2009-06-15 Thread David Blevins
On Jun 15, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: On 6/14/2009 5:43 PM, David Blevins wrote: Regardless of that choice we will still handle sychronization of instantiation, so double-check-locking or other things will not be necessary. NB: DCL does not work in Java. Period.

Re: [OT] using static helper classes within servlets

2009-06-15 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim, On 6/15/2009 12:43 PM, Tim Funk wrote: correction: The double checked idiom was fixed in java5. The variable which is checked needs to be declared as volatile. The link states that at the bottom. ...which is why I said: There are cases