DateFormat is not thread safe

[trueacumen]

Sorry if this is already posted. But this is one important thing to note:
DateFormat is not thread safe. Using it in two parallel threads cause corruption of data or runtime exception. Use jodatime where ever you can.

Acumen,
http://lucid-forums.com

[Json]

Indeed, this is what the API tells you.

Date formats are not synchronized. It is recommended to create separate format instances for each thread. If multiple threads access a format concurrently, it must be synchronized externally.

I personally like using Joda-Time as well, its great. I believe the current Java API for dates is somewhat behind its time, hehe.

// Json

[trueacumen]

Yeah, I agree with that.

Acumen,
Lucid forums

[trueacumen]

I thought this was a tip, just curious why is this moved to 'New to Java'.

Acumen,
Lucid forums

[JavaPF]

I thought this was a tip, just curious why is this moved to 'New to Java'.

Acumen,
Lucid forums

Hey trueacumen.

Sorry I moved this to the 'New to Java' forum as the 'Tips & Tutorials' forum is more for code snippets & examples.

Thanks for the submission though, I may add a sub forum called 'Tips' for things like this. What do you think?

[trueacumen]

I think that makes sense. I really appreciate the effort you are putting in maintaining these forums.