[2119] in java-interest
Re: Object level concurrency control.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Mon Sep 25 21:36:52 1995
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 14:31:46 -0800 (PDT)
From: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Leon Hurst <lahurst@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Leon,
> Seen as Java is both multithreaded and Object Oriented I was wondering
> if there was any object level concurrency control available or in the
> works. For example can one specify a set of methods as "serialised",
> meaning that only one of these methods can be executing at a time.
That is essentially what "synchronized" does.
> The reason I ask is wrt to object migration. In a multithreaded
> environment it might not be a good idea to migrate an object while one
> of its methods is executing! Hence one might might be able to make the
> its migrate method a member of this group and so avoid the possibility
> of migrating as one of its (public) methods is being executed by a
> different thread.
We don't support any form of object migration or persitification other
than what you can hack yourself.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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