Hi Michael, Provided that your code is ensuring that only one thread is accessing the DOM at a time (i.e. the whole structure, not just one node) you should be fine.
Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael S. Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/30/2007 03:25:31 PM: > Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas <at> ca.ibm.com> writes: > > > > No. For example, you will run into trouble with NodeLists. Internally they > > cache the length and previously accessed position to improve the > > performance of calls to getLength() and item(i). Invoking these methods > > from multiple threads (even on different NodeLists) without synchronizing > > your application code will lead to the exceptions [1] observed by > > Prashant. You can't count on the other read operations being thread-safe > > either. > > > > > [1] Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > > at org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode.nodeListGetLength(Unknown Source) > > at org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode.getLength(Unknown Source) > > > > I'm running into this issue within my application. Aside from > synchronizing the > code that calls these methods, are there any additional steps that need to be > taken to resolve this issue? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
