Hi,

may we use the java keyword "synchronized" on a method of a SLSB to ensure that several statements get executed all together or not at all?

I have a method in a SLSB, which updates a counter kept in an Entity bean, if some condition is fulfilled.

Afterwards the counter is increased. I want to ensure the integrity of the counter. Because several threads can and will access the method.

What would you suggest?

This how the pseudo code block looks like:

public String methodDoesNotBelongToSLSinterface(EnityBeanWithCounter eb)
{
...
...
// make sure that no race condition can occur using
synchronized(this)
{
statement1;
statement2;
...
statementN;
// Increase counter if successful
if (someCondition)
 eb.setCounter(eb.getCounter + 1);
}
....
....
}