> This answer doesn't make sense to me. Either you can use a hashtable in an entity
>bean or you
> cannot. Why should I worry about threads now?
Don't worry, just use it and be happy, but if you want to be on the safe
side, you should consider the 1.2 collections.
arkin
>
> >
> > If you use a Vector or Hashtable from one thread and something happens
> > to your thread inside the synchronized stuff, your Hashtable/Vector
> > might be corrupted. But you shouldn't care. IF something happens to your
> > thread, the EJB server will discard that bean (always).
> >
> > If you are using two threads and something happens to thread A that
> > leaves the Vector in an indeterminate state, then thread B might break
> > and you have no control over that.
> >
> > I've just implemented some piece of the CMP engine that manages locks
> > using synchronized. I expect that something might happen to the thread
> > since the EJB server controls it, and have extra (even redundant) code
> > just to make sure that never happens.
> >
> > In the Java 1.2 collections Sun addressed that by writing the collectors
> > so they do not rely on synchronized.
> >
> > arkin
> >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Laird
> > >
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