Greetings,
Does ABCL safely support re-entrant and multi-entrant calls? What I mean by that is the following:
Re-entrant: on a single OS thread - my Java program calls into ABCL, then ABCL calls into my Java application, and then the Java application calls back into ABCL. So the stack has Java, ABCL, JAVA, and then ABCL again.
Multi-entrant: my Java application has many threads. One of my threads calls into ABCL. Then, while one thread is still in ABCL, another thread evokes ABCL. So now we have two calls into ABCL by two independent Java/OS threads running at the same time.
I understand the typical problems associated with application-level shared variables. This is expected. The question revolves around ABCL's internals. I presume ABCL would have some shared data that is internal to ABCL. That's what I am unclear about. ABCL would have had to be designed for these scenarios from the ground up.
This is a little hard to test because if it can't always correctly handle these situations, it may not become clear until certain scenarios arrive. It may be hard for any "test" program I write to cause those scenarios, so I thought this may be a known answer.
Thanks!
Blake