From: Torsten Curdt>>
The only way to do proper synchronization is synchronize all access ...or use Dough's concurrent utils (which are now also part of java 1.5)
> but I am in trouble now as I cannot switch to 1.5 until some more time. > > It might take some time to migrate existing applications to 1.5. > > by the way we deploy the java on websphere & AS400
You can use the concurrent utils without going to java 1.5, as far as I know... they are packaged with cocoon now. But they come as standard with java 1.5.
Ben