I've written a little 'synchronization taglib' more just as an exercise
than anything else. The idea is that it provides a tag like
<sync:lock label="a">
...
</sync:lock>
to allow the establishment of an application-wide critical section in JSP
code.
I don't really see a use for it :-), since ideally this sort of logic
wouldn't be in a JSP page anyway. I can throw it into the sandbox, but
let me know if there's any more interest, because I *could* conceivably
round it out.
For instance, there could be tags like
<sync:wait label="a"/>
<sync:notify label="a"/>
with equally questionable use as <lock>. There's no end to how this could
be overengineered beyond practical JSP use; for instance, there could
always be a <barrier> tag, and semaphore operations, and so on...
Shawn
