Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!d8g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: lewbloch Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: static synchronized method Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <0e62fc71-0ae6-408c-9e93-c43b3b7c56f0@28g2000pry.googlegroups.com> <858b94be-c13e-47fd-9365-b05e8ba9b29e@q15g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.239.45.22 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1311957373 19068 127.0.0.1 (29 Jul 2011 16:36:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d8g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.239.45.22; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ASELCHRU X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.99 Safari/535.1,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6660 On Jul 28, 3:09=A0am, Ross wrote: > Thanks. The program just uses the standard ClassLoader, and doesn't > even have that many classes. > > In the static synchronized method, a password file is being rewritten. > If this program gets adopted long term, I'll be rewriting it to use a > proper database, and data synchronisation issues will disappear. But > "static synchronized" will do for the meantime. Why do you want the method to be static? It's not wrong, but an instance method would also work. I'm interested in the reasoning. -- Lew