thread safety

[Danny G]

Does anyone have an example of how to thread safely instantiate an IE
driver?
I've tried synchronizing a getter but for the life of me I can't get
these test to consistently end in the same fashion.

Some times the test passes and when I run it again I get this
exception when creating the driver.

While evaluating expression: #result = testLogin(#userName,
#userPassword, #userDomain)
org.concordion.internal.InvalidExpressionException:
IllegalStateException: Cannot create new browser instance: 21at
org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>
(InternetExplorerDriver.java:70)at
com.appsec.console.webdriver.BrowserDriver2.<init>
(BrowserDriver2.java:10)at
com.appsec.fixture.console.login.Login.testLogin (Login.java:21)
public class BrowserDriver {

private WebDriver browserDriver;
public BrowserDriver2() {
Line10 -> this.browserDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
}

public synchronized WebDriver getInstance() {

return browserDriver;
}

}

[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

The IE driver isn't threadsafe. There is no way to run multiple IE
drivers in parallel, due to restrictions with how IE runs in Windows.
Sorry!