RE: Thread waiting on a data queue ... doesn't respond to interrupt()??

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:20 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Thread waiting on a data queue ... doesn't respond to
interrupt()??

Folks:

Has anyone ever seen something like this?

I've got a thread that's listening on a data queue ... timeout value is

to -1 (wait forever).

The thread is sent an interrupt message ... which should throw an
InterruptedException that I catch ... but sometimes it doesn't.

The code that is reading the data queue looks like this:

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int waitTime = -1;

try {
while(true) {
try {
DataQueueEntry entry = changeQueue.read(waitTime);
if (entry != null) {
processEntry(entry);
}
} catch (AS400SecurityException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ErrorCompletingRequestException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalObjectTypeException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ObjectDoesNotExistException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
System.out.println("Thread was interrupted, exit");
}
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The method that is trying to interrupt the thread is something like this:

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monitorThread.interrupt();
try {
monitorThread.join();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
logException(e);
}
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But it the join() method never seems to return.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this has only been seen when the program is
running on the iSeries ... not on a PC.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

david