GitHub

Default to using a Configuration from a ThreadLocal when no Configuration is "attached"

This will behave as today, for backwards-compatibility reasons. Queries created through DSLContext will be attached to their creating Configuration and execute themselves in the context of such a ...
GitHub

Add API to remove internal ThreadLocal values when done with Mockito

It would be nice if Mockito had API to remove its ThreadLocal values gracefully when I'm done using it from a pooled thread. To explain I've been using Mockito to great effect in combination with ...
InfoWorld

Can ThreadLocal solve the double-checked locking problem?

In my previous article “Double-Checked Locking: Clever, but Broken,” I looked at some of the problems with double-checked locking (DCL), an idiom recommended by a number of Java books and articles as ...
InfoWorld

Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 4: Thread groups, volatility, and thread-local variables

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread group ...