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

You can use synchronized keyword, locks, atomic objects, etc. - but they are local to the JVM. So if you have two JVMs running the same program, they can still e.g. run the same synchronized method at the same time - one on each JVM, but not more.

Solutions:

• terracotta provides distributed locking

• hazelcast as well

• you can use manual synchronization on file system or database