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package com.ibm.jbatch.jsl.util;

import java.net.URL;

import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;

import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class ValidatorHelper {

    public final static String SCHEMA_LOCATION = "xsd/jobXML_1_0.xsd";
    
    private static Schema schema = null;
    
    private static SchemaFactory sf = 
        SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);              

    public static Schema getXJCLSchema() {
        if (schema == null) {
            try {
                URL url = ValidatorHelper.class.getResource("/" + SCHEMA_LOCATION);
                schema = sf.newSchema(url);
            } catch (SAXException e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        }
        return schema;        
    }     
}

@@ -1246,21 +1246,129 @@
     
-public static
+/**%0D%0A     * This method must be synchronized as SchemaFactory is not thread-safe%0D%0A     */%0D%0A    public static synchronized
  Sch

Fix for issue #18 - Possible concurrency problem with JobOperator