Re: [xml-dev] multiple parser objects

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

> Does anyone know if Xerces for Java can handle multiple requests to
> parse at the same time.  Let's say for example that everytime an XML
> file is received from a remote location that it spawns a new thread that
> will parse the XML data and do with it what it will.

No SAX parser is expected to handle concurrency like that.
One thread at a time per object, that's the rule.

You can maintain a pool of parsers, and have each thread grab
an unused parser from the pool, if it costs too much to create
a parser.

 - Dave