Generally, that's what we've been doing in our renderers. I guess you could also use a ThreadLocal, also, but that's probably more of a hack than anything else.
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:39:01 -0800, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:17:53 -0500, Sean Schofield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering if a renderer needs to be thread safe? Specifically I > > was hoping to use a class variable as a "counter" so I could keep > > track of various counts while I called a certain method recursively. > > > > Yes, they have to be thread safe ... there's only one instance in > memory (just like a servlet). > > The best way for a renderer to keep track of stuff like counters would > be to use one of the generic attributes on the component it is > rendering. If you use fully qualified attribute names > (com.mycompany.foo.COUNTER) you'll avoid collisions with other code > that is doing the same sort of thing. > > Craig > -- -Heath Borders-Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
