[jdom-interest] Re: static data needs to be thread data for m ultithreaded applications

[philip.nelson at omniresources.com]

On a related but different note, there is one other issue with the static
Namespace hashmap I have been wondering about.  In a long running use of the
Namespace class like a servlet engine or a SOAP processor, couldn't the
hashmap eventually get really large?  There is no way to remove a namespace
or mapping, nor can there be a way since multiple documents could share the
same namespace.

I realize for many users, even with heavy use, there will probably not be
lots of different namespaces.  But I do have a client doing a SOAP style
application where they really have no control over that.

What do you think?