The synchronized should be unnecessary; The database locks should do all
serialization necessary. Consider how you would have to do this if your
server was split over several systems.
At 08:47 AM 10/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>The synchronized method I created in the servlet is going to increment a
number
>in the database and display it in the browser. Because I don't want multiple
>user update the database at same time, I added synchronized keyword in the
>method.
>
>My question is: does synchronize guarantee that only one thread does the
update
>database? Why after many times of testing multiple browsers, I still got same
>number on different threads which means access to the synchronized method is
>not
>exclusive?
>
>many thanks in advance.
>
>Tiana
>
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