Java synchronization between different JVMs

Question

The project I am working on would trigger various asynchronous jobs to do some work. As I look into it more these asynchronous jobs are actually being run as separate JVMs (sepa

Answer 1

I have implemented a java IPC Lock implementation using files: FileBasedLock and a IPC Semaphore implementation using a shared DB (jdbc): JdbcSemaphore. Both implementations are part of spf4j.

If you have a zookeeper instance take a look at the Zookeeper based Lock recipes from Apache Curator