Hi,

We have a desktop application developed in swings, for sending and receiving files between servers using threads, one thread polls the source folder every 1 minute for the specific extention files, if found it send files to the destination server, and copy the sent files to another folder in the local server and delete them from the source folder and vice versa for receiving, the application runs non stop on the server.
Ideally at any point of time only one thread (as the sendfile() function is synchronized) should be running for seding,moving and deleting the files every minute which is getting logged into a log file, but a few days ago a file was sent twice with in the same polling interval, after checking the logs we found that the the file could not be deleted by the running thread as it was being used by another process and that process seems to send it for the second time. If one thread is functioning at a time what could be the reason behind this discrepancies, is it OS related thread malfunctioning.

Server configuration -
we are using Windows 2003 and JRE1.5.
application exe has been developed using jdk 1.5

We thought of OS or thread issue as the same version of application is running on the server since last two years and it never behaved like that, and after taking a restart of the server now its working fine till date .... only one version and one instance of application is running on the server.. still wondering what could be the reason of this unexpacted behaviour of the app ..

Regards