Using ThreadLocal with Existing Classes Containing Static Members

Question

I am trying to use ThreadLocalthread safety to existing classes that are not thread-related but are experiencing problems. It seems that isolation is not performed - that the threads still share static, rather than local to each thread.

I believe that my use is almost exactly the same as the localization example SimpleDateFormatterdescribed in https://stackoverflow.com/a/2126/169 , but this does not work the way I hope

I hope that someone who has used this will point out a gross error that I have to make ... so, I think, my question is: can you determine what I'm doing wrong here?

Here is my simple class:

public class SimpleClassWithStaticMembers {
    private static String theStaticString =
        "StaticStringInClassWithStaticMember";
    public void setTheStaticString (String val) {
        SimpleClassWithStaticMembers.theStaticString = val; 
    }
    public String getTheStaticString () {
        return SimpleClassWithStaticMembers.theStaticString;
    }
}

, threadlocal SimpleClassWithStaticMembers:

public class SimpleTesterThread extends Thread {
    private void showMsg (String msg) {  
        System.out.println (msg); 
        System.out.flush(); 
    }
    public SimpleTesterThread (String threadId) {
        super(threadId);
    }
    public void run() {
        try { Thread.sleep(2000); } catch (InterruptedException ex) { }
        ThreadLocal<SimpleClassWithStaticMembers> localizedClass =
            new ThreadLocal<SimpleClassWithStaticMembers>();
        localizedClass.set(new SimpleClassWithStaticMembers());
        // repeating here to be sure we overlap all with all
        for (int ii=0; ii < 3; ii++) { 
            localizedClass.get().setTheStaticString ("Setby_" + this.getName());
            try { Thread.sleep(2000); } catch (InterruptedException ex) { }
            showMsg("            Thread [" + this.getName() + "] - " 
                + localizedClass.get().getTheStaticString() + "'.");
        }
        showMsg ("Thread [" + this.getName() 
            + "] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - " 
            + localizedClass.get().getTheStaticString() + "'.");
        localizedClass.remove();
    }
}

SimpleTesterThread ( , "AAAAAAAAAA", "BBBBBBBBB" ..), , , . :

...
            Thread [JJJJJJJJJJ] - Setby_CCCCCCCCCC'.
            Thread [DDDDDDDDDD] - Setby_JJJJJJJJJJ'.
            Thread [IIIIIIIIII] - Setby_DDDDDDDDDD'.
            Thread [GGGGGGGGGG] - Setby_IIIIIIIIII'.
            Thread [EEEEEEEEEE] - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
Thread [EEEEEEEEEE] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
            Thread [HHHHHHHHHH] - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
            Thread [BBBBBBBBBB] - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
            Thread [FFFFFFFFFF] - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
Thread [FFFFFFFFFF] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
...
            Thread [JJJJJJJJJJ] - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
Thread [JJJJJJJJJJ] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
Thread [HHHHHHHHHH] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
            Thread [GGGGGGGGGG] - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
Thread [GGGGGGGGGG] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
            Thread [IIIIIIIIII] - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
            Thread [CCCCCCCCCC] - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
Thread [CCCCCCCCCC] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
Thread [AAAAAAAAAA] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
            Thread [DDDDDDDDDD] - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
Thread [DDDDDDDDDD] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
Thread [IIIIIIIIII] complete. Our 'threadlocal' string is now - Setby_GGGGGGGGGG'.
============== all threads complete.

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