XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT ibiblio.org>]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Seth Blumberg <sethb AT pobox.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold
> <elharo AT ibiblio.org>wrote:
>
> >             Thread t = new Thread(job);
> >
>
> This will cause the process to be rudely aborted on some managed frameworks
> that don't allow user-code-created threads. As in, no chance to catch an
> exception. Poor design, but.
>
>
Can you be more specific? I.e. what are such frameworks?



> You would need an option to disable threading, and have the threaded code
> fall back to non-threaded mode if creating a new thread caused a runtime
> exception.
>


I expect I'm going to avoid creating a new thread here unless the client
explicitly requests DOS protection.

Does anyone happen to know a way to do this (time limit a job) in java 1.4
and earlier without creating a new thread?



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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT ibiblio.org