>What does it mean that a certain class is not "thread-safe"? Does it mean that problems can arise if the class is used in conjunction with threads? That it should not be used at all with threads? Or simply that certain precautions are in order?
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>IIRC, I read this about the Swing classes.
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>TIA,
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>Hilmar.

Hi Hilmar,

You can get some more info here:

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci331590,00.html