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Locking in Local/Network mode

 
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First of all i want to say hello to everybody on the ranch here. This is my first post, i hope it will be my last.
At the moment I am trying to pass the Developers Exam and learn something on the way. I have read several posts at the forum, as well as reading some of the chapters of the Sybex certification book.
I am confused about the locking system described on the forum. It seems that there is no need for locking operating in 'local' mode. Why is this? I assigned a thread for every action my gui will perform. Unless I am mistaking, this too can cause data corruption.
 
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"Clint"-
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Thanks! and welcome to the JavaRanch! And don't make this your last post. You are very welcome here, and look forward to being able to help you as much as possible.
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Yes, having a new thread spawned after every Action could cause that problem. If you are letting the local mode do this to, and two seperate threads could access the same Data class and db.db file.
So my question would be why spawn a new thread for each action? While in the real world that will speed things up a bit, and make your system MDI capable, your really don't need that flexibilty in this assignment. It won't make you lose points, but it probably won't add points either.
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Mark,
Maybe his name really is Clint Eastwood? It's possible (grin).
Matt
 
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Yeah I know, it is possible. However, when there seems to be an obvious ficticious name, I have to reply that way.
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Hello again. As you can see, i have changed the obvious 'ranch' name to my real name.
Mark: Thanx for your reply. I think I will use the Swing event thread for performing the action. It will hold up any user interaction until the action completes. This will avoid any data corruption, I think.

Matthew: Thanx for your support. I could well be my real name, for my lastname translated from dutch to english is "Eastwood"...
Greetz,
Kees (Clint)
 
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