Re: Reading a file in a loop over VPN...

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Burdette wrote:
> What I am looking for from the group is any ideas on the best practice of 
> writing this. My concern is if I write a while loop to constantly check 
> the file, that this will be a drain on resources on the host as well as 
> the VPN. Is there a timer API in Java (similar to the CL CMD DELAY) that I 
> could use to let the process sleep and wake up every 3 seconds to run the 
> I/O.

Well, the delay is easy enough ...

private void delay(int seconds) {
   try {
      Thread.sleep(seconds*1000);
   } catch (InterruptedException e) { }
}

What kind of file IO are you looking at?  Is this a database file on the
iSeries, ifs file, or PC file?

david


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