Multithreaded access to file

Question

We have a multi threaded java program. Multiple-threads will write to a file, and one thread will read from that file. I am looking for some design ideas. Is synchronization

Answer 1

If being synchronous isn't important, you could have your writer running in its own thread, and allow other threads to queue up writes to the file. Although I think the first thing to consider is whether writing to a file is really what you want to do. Especially in high-traffic situations, having a lot of disk I/O may not be very efficient.