Is it OK to use Gson instance as a static field in a model bean (reuse)?

Question

Here\'s the model I implemented:

public class LoginSession {
    private static final Gson gson = new Gson();

    private String id;
    private String name         


        

Answer 1

We had issues with thread safety a while back and we solved it by using the FastDateFormat in apache commons.

Just created a gist Link for Gist around this to help the people wondering if Gson instances can be reused. They do not have setters and all vars are private.

So other than the SimpleDateFormat issue I don't see them maintaining state anywhere else.

Do check it out. This is my first time replying to one of these . Happy to give back for once . :)