Distributed Concurrency Control

Question

I\'ve been working on this for a few days now, and I\'ve found several solutions but none of them incredibly simple or lightweight. The problem is basically this: We have a cl

Answer 1

Since you are already connecting to a database, before adding another infra piece, take a look at JdbcSemaphore, it is simple to use:

JdbcSemaphore semaphore = new JdbcSemaphore(ds, semName, maxReservations);
boolean acq = semaphore.acquire(acquire, 1, TimeUnit.MINUTES);
if (acq) {
 // do stuff
 semaphore.release();
} else {
  throw new TimeoutException();
}

It is part of spf4j library.