The project I am working on would trigger various asynchronous jobs to do some work. As I look into it more these asynchronous jobs are actually being run as separate JVMs (separate java processes). Does it mean I would not be able to use any of the following if I need to synchronize between these processes:
java.util.concurrent.locks
Because it seems to me they are all thread-level?
Does Java provide support for IPC like semaphores between processes?
That's right. You can not use any standard synchronization mechanisms because they are working into one JVM.
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