These are all getter apis which if you look through the implementations call some synchronized api's. Its just that they dont need to synchronized across all the completed/retired/running jobs for the web ui.
thanks mahadev On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Min Zhou <coderp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone can help me with this? > > Thanks, > Min > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Min Zhou <coderp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Hadoop JobTracker's http info server provides running/failed/completed >> job informations on the web through jobtracker.jsp. Lines below show >> the logic how the web retries those informations from JobTracker. >> >> JobTracker tracker = (JobTracker) application.getAttribute("job.tracker"); >> ... >> Vector<JobInProgress> runningJobs = tracker.runningJobs(); >> Vector<JobInProgress> completedJobs = tracker.completedJobs(); >> Vector<JobInProgress> failedJobs = tracker.failedJobs(); >> >> Those three methods above are apparently non-thread-safe ones. I am >> confused, why the web can safely call a non-thread-safe method of JT? >> >> Thanks, >> Min >> -- >> My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and >> bytecode based virtual machine. >> >> My profile: >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/coderplay >> My blog: >> http://coderplay.javaeye.com >> > > > > -- > My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and > bytecode based virtual machine. > > My profile: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/coderplay > My blog: > http://coderplay.javaeye.com >