Re: Problem with Threads

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:59:28 GMT
Message-ID:
<Adcth.14189$w91.8319@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
Damo wrote:

Have you actually tried running this code exactly as you presented it to us?
Doesn't the getList() call give you a compiler error?


Ye , Ive tried it, it did'nt give a compile error. Its a servlet so it
just printed a blank screen.
The paramater being passed in is a string.

I've changed it around now to what Daniel Pitts suggested, but now it
gives me a compiler error at

synchronize(list)
{
       while(!ready)
      {
     resultList.wait();
       }
}
it claims to "cannot find symbol.......method synchronize()

I'm at a loss as to why its doing this


There is a typo. The keyword is "synchronized" not "synchronize".

"synchronize" conforms to the identifier syntax, and is not a keyword,
so followed by a "(" it should be a method call, but the compiler cannot
find a method with that identifier.

I think there should be a place for a kind, intelligent, Java syntax
checker that is a bit more helpful that the current compiler.
"synchronize" in that context is far more likely to be a typo for the
keyword than for a method identifier.

Patricia

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