> pls excuse my struts-[OT] question, but I would appreciate to learn how you > handle the situation of concurrent data update within your web > applications.
I have to live with a "traditional" telnet app which is also updating the files, and I can't hold record locks from the web, so... I read in the record and store a fingerprint of what it looked like when you began editing it. When you to to commit your changes, I re-read the record. If it has changed since you began editing it, you lose. Definitely not ideal, but it works for us. Most of the time I'm writing a new record, so nobody else is going to be editing it while the user is working on filling in the data. -- Wendy Smoak Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. Arizona State University PA Information Resources Management
