Thanks for the ideas - unfortunately I can't use the
server monitor because I only have standard CF8 to work with; I like
the idea of using the server scope though, I will probably do some
trials with that. The only other idea I had was to use some sort of
text file or XML on the server to
You could just store a value in a persistent scope such as the
application scope.
When your ZIP thread completes, have it write a value to the
application scope (such as a date/time stamp).
The FTP thread can just check that value is set, if it is, then it
knows the ZIP thread has completed.
the server monitor API might help here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/threads_6.html#1154144
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/servermonitor_14.html
one last thing:
don't forget - you have a SERVER scope available to you to store info.
More encompassing than
