[IVY-1373] SimpleDateFormat not thread safe

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0-RC1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0-RC2
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Maarten Coene
• Reporter: Wolfgang Frank
• Created: 20/Aug/12 14:20
• Updated: 20/Aug/12 22:00
• Resolved: 20/Aug/12 22:00

Description

Class org.apache.ivy.Ivy defines

public static final SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");

SimpleDateFormat is not thread safe. Errors might occur like

Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: multiple points
  at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:1101)
  at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:540)
  at java.text.DigitList.getDouble(DigitList.java:168)
  at java.text.DecimalFormat.parse(DecimalFormat.java:1321)
  at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.subParse(SimpleDateFormat.java:1791)
  at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.parse(SimpleDateFormat.java:1455)
  at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:355)
  at org.apache.ivy.plugins.parser.xml.XmlModuleDescriptorParser$Parser.infoStarted(XmlModuleDescriptorParser.java:935)
  at org.apache.ivy.plugins.parser.xml.XmlModuleDescriptorParser$Parser.startElement(XmlModuleDescriptorParser.java:297)