Distributed Concurrency Control

Question

I\'ve been working on this for a few days now, and I\'ve found several solutions but none of them incredibly simple or lightweight. The problem is basically this: We have a cl

Answer 1

I made a simple RMI service with two methods: lock and release. both methods take a key (my data model used UUIDs as pk so that was also the locking key).

RMI is a good solution for this because it's centralized. you can't do this with EJBs (specialially in a cluster as you don't know on which machine your call will land). plus, it's easy.

it worked for me.