Re: Java DAO pattern: singleton and threadsafe?
koenxjans@gmail.com wrote:
package nl.nedcar.apollo.server.dao;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
public class FirstDAO extends AbstractDAO {
private static FirstDAO theInstance;
Here's your trouble. You will also note than none of the methods or other
accesses to shared state are synchronized. This code was designed to fail.
public static synchronized FirstDAO getInstance() {
if(theInstance == null) {
theInstance = new FirstDAO();
}
return theInstance;
}
public String getSomethingFromDatabase() throws Exception {
try {
ResultSet s = getStatement().executeQuery("select something from
users");
Note that
[a] ResultSet object is automatically closed when the Statement object that
generated it is closed, re-executed, or used to retrieve the next result from
a sequence of multiple results.
if(s.next()) {
return s.getString("username");
}
return null;
}
finally {
releaseConnection();
}
}
}
Yep. Designed to fail.
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