Is SAXParser in JDK6 thread-safe?

[J Rosetto]

Can anyone tell me if the SAXParser in JDK 6 is thread-safe or not?

In my application I want to have a single SAXParser (configured to use a predefined set of schemas), and have several threads use it for parsing their XML.

[William Brogden]

Since an SAX parser has to keep track of state and can only be attached to one input source, a single instance is NOT thread-safe.

Perhaps you were thinking of using a single instance of SAXParserFactory since it is the factory that gets configured with a schema, etc.

Bill