Have a table where you have 1 row that marks the relationship between two clients. Like a cartesian product: A, B A, C A, D B, A B, C B, D ..and so on. Have all clients have their dedicated connection acquire locks on these rows. Each lock represents a client that may post a message. Have all clients have 1 connection per potential message source client. Have each of these connections attempt a commited read on respective row on separate threads. For example, A will have a connection waiting on row B->A, another connection on C->A, etc. When B posts a message to A, it will insert it into messages table and it will release it's lock on B->A row (and B->C, B->D etc) in the locks table. This will cause A's lock waiting connection to return the result which indicates B posted a message. Within this thread (of A), you need to read messages table with a repeatable read and before you release that repeatable read lock, A needs to start waiting on lock B->A again, so that B does not post another msg to A while A is not looking. But for this to happen, B must have locked B->A by now. When should B lock B->A again? I dont' know yet. Figuring that out is left to the reader as an exercise. LOL. (Please let me know if you make this work) Better have a row version that is incremented per row in the messages table so that you read only after that level and keep it as current client version to use as water mark until next time. This is alot of total connections but if you got enough memory, it should work. I did not try this, there may be problems when you actually try. Lock escalation may cause problems. Maybe Derby has a way to disable lock escalation. You may be able to reduce number of connections by thinking in a smarter way to maintain your locks via persisted state info in another table(s). JMS might be easier and use less threads with async io. Regards, Ali Kurt Huwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forget about Derby for chat and have a look at JMS. This is a good implementation:
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