[JAMES-43] Date Formatting inside James is not thread safe

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0a3
• Component/s: James Core
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All
• Bugzilla Id: 11233
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Peter M. Goldstein
• Created: 28/Jul/02 01:49
• Updated: 06/Jun/04 21:35
• Resolved: 06/Jun/04 21:35

Description

Basically the issue centers on the fact that the format and parse methods of
the java.text.SimpleDateFormat are not thread-safe (they reference a common
internal Calendar instance) and so can only be called in a multi-threaded
context inside an appropriate synchronized block. Current James
implementation has several instances of assorted classes calling the single
static method on RFC822DateFormat.