So i used the following to create a lock on a file so that I can edit it exclusively: File file = new File(filename); channel = new RandomAccessFile(file, "rw").getChannel(); lock = channel.try...

I'm trying to lock a file with Java in Windows environment with FileLock and I got an issue : after I lock the file it can still be accessed by other processes at least on some level. Example code...

I am creating a simple application for opening and editing xml files. These files are located in a local folder accessed by multiple instances of the application. What I want to do is lock each fil...

I'm developing a system that interfaces with a USPS shipping package called Dazzle. Part of this system includes a monitoring daemon whose purpose is to take tab-separated value files, turn them in...

I have an application where i sometimes need to read from file being written to and as a result being locked. As I have understood from other questions i should catch the IOException and retry unti...

As most should know close() also closes any streams uses. This allows the follow code: BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(...))); ... br.close(); T...