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package org.apache.tomcat.util.http;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Queue;
import java.util.TimeZone;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue;

A thread safe wrapper around SimpleDateFormat that does not make use of ThreadLocal and - broadly - only creates enough SimpleDateFormat objects to satisfy the concurrency requirements.
/** * A thread safe wrapper around {@link SimpleDateFormat} that does not make use * of ThreadLocal and - broadly - only creates enough SimpleDateFormat objects * to satisfy the concurrency requirements. */
public class ConcurrentDateFormat { private final String format; private final Locale locale; private final TimeZone timezone; private final Queue<SimpleDateFormat> queue = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<>(); public ConcurrentDateFormat(String format, Locale locale, TimeZone timezone) { this.format = format; this.locale = locale; this.timezone = timezone; SimpleDateFormat initial = createInstance(); queue.add(initial); } public String format(Date date) { SimpleDateFormat sdf = queue.poll(); if (sdf == null) { sdf = createInstance(); } String result = sdf.format(date); queue.add(sdf); return result; } public Date parse(String source) throws ParseException { SimpleDateFormat sdf = queue.poll(); if (sdf == null) { sdf = createInstance(); } Date result = sdf.parse(source); sdf.setTimeZone(timezone); queue.add(sdf); return result; } private SimpleDateFormat createInstance() { SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(format, locale); sdf.setTimeZone(timezone); return sdf; } }