Sorry Martin,
but using volatile will not make your code any thread-safer.
Volatile (if implemented at all by your VM) will ensure that all
threads sees the "central" copy instead of their own copy. It won't
prevent you from concurrent modification.
Example:
public MyThread{
private boolean running;
public void run(){
while(running){
....
}
}
public void stopThread(){
running = false;
}
public static void test(){
MyThread t = new MyThread();
t.start();
try{
Thread.sleep(10000);
}catch(InterruptedException e){}
t.stopThread();
}
In this example the variable "running" should be declared volatile to
ensure that the MyThread-thread will actually get the modified copy
and stop (however using synchronized isRunning()/setRunning(boolean)
methods is far better)
For variables which are modified from many threads you can use
synchronization or atomics (faster on sun).
Btw, using ThreadLocals to avoid synchronization also seems weird :-)
regards
Leon
On 2/10/07, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
after discussing a few scenarios I came upon the idea of
volatile is to be used as a default declarator (if only for speed..)
ThreadLocal is to be used for complex DataObjects whose size may 'grow' over
time
in this way ThreadLocal guarantees proper initialisation of the entire
object
Lighter (primarily primitive such as int,double) objects may live in memory
as volatile
Thanks Dave--
Martin Gainty
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>--- Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In a StrutsApplication is it best to use delcare
> > variables with volatile OR ThreadLocal to ensure
> > variables are referenced in a ThreadSafe manner?
>
>Which variables, and what types?! (Note mild alarm.)
>Are you attempting to share data, or ensure that it
>*isn't* shared? Where are you accessing the variable?
>
>d.
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