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On 05/10/2001 at 02:29:26 PM, owner-java400-l@midrange.com wrote: I have a program, that resides on a server and is called by serveral clients. Further one thread of this program calls programs on an AS/400 that create a file, do some work, and returns to the java thread. My problem is this: I need to use the same file for all instances of the program calls on the AS/400 and I can not have more than 1 client calling the AS/400 programs at once as the file can not be overwritten by client 2 while client 1 is running the AS/400 programs. I have syncronized the method of the thread but do not feel like this is sufficient. Does anyone have a suggestion. Thanks in advance. --- end of excerpt --- You never really said if or when that file was modified anywhere else in the application or on the system. If the file is ONLY touched by the program that you call and you ONLY call that program from Java, then simply using sychronized around the java code that calls the program, would be sufficient. However, you've probably got some other issues regarding just simple thread safety that you need to be concerned about any time you call out to native methods. You need to be sure the program is thread safe in general as a seperate question from the 'serialize access to the file due to application requirements'. http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/threads Since I do JDBC, I might think about calling the program via JDBC using the SQL CALL statement. Then, you could create 1 JDBC connection for each client, have the program use QTEMP, and handle as many clients as you want at the same time. Each client gets a JDBC connection. When the client is finished, the JDBC connection is saved for a subsequent client. "The stuff we call "software" is not like anything that human society is used to thinking about. Software is something like a machine, and something like mathematics, and something like language, and something like thought, and art, and information... but software is not in fact any of those other things." Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown Fred A. Kulack - AS/400e Java and Java DB2 access, Jdbc, JTA, etc... IBM in Rochester, MN (Phone: 507.253.5982 T/L 553-5982) mailto:kulack@us.ibm.com Personal: mailto:kulack@bresnanlink.net AOL Instant Messenger: Home:FKulack Work:FKulackWrk +--- | This is the JAVA/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to JAVA400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to JAVA400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to JAVA400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner: joe@zappie.net +---
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