Adrian Crum wrote: > --- On Thu, 4/1/10, Adam Heath <[email protected]> wrote: >> Adrian Crum wrote: >>> I multi-threaded the data load by having one thread >> parse the XML files >>> and put the results in a queue. Another thread >> services the queue and >>> loads the data. I also multi-threaded the EECAs - but >> that has an issue >>> I need to solve. >> We need to be careful with that. EntitySaxReader >> supports reading >> extremely large data files; it doesn't read the entire >> thing into >> memory. So, any such event dispatch system needs to >> keep the parsing >> from getting to far ahead. > > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/BlockingQueue.html
Not really. That will block the calling thread when no data is available.
