Object.notify() Wrong Context

[Isaac Hewitt]

My method gets the file path in the JTree and feeds it to my outgoing email program MailDialog. The email program cannot send the file because it is locked while open in the JTree. With my method below, it is able to be sent, but the line ob.notify(); gives me a hint in NetBeans "invoking Object outside a synchronized context". This method resides in the subclass of JTree so the line synchronized(this) means this tree. Does anyone know what needs to be done to straighten this out? Thanks.

    private void send() {
       String path = this.getLastSelectedPathComponent().toString();
           
       try {
           
       Object ob =  this.getTreeLock();

       synchronized(this) {
            ob.notify();
       }
     } catch(Exception x) {
         JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(new JFrame(), x.getMessage(), "", 2);
     }
     
         new MailDialog(new File(path));

     }

[Henry Wong]

The notify() method requires that the lock of the object be held. In your example, you are locking one object, and using a different object to notify.

Henry