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Locking a file

 
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Is there a way of "locking" a file so that only one jvm can be reading/writting to it at a time?
 
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java.neo FileChannel

that was a joke, ... I know it is nio, neo
 
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/nio/channels/FileLock.html
 
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Oops, forgot I can't use java.nio Any other suggestions?
 
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