FileLock doesn't work in UNIX (solaris)

Question

Hi all,
I have a piece of code which writes to xml file and before that locks the file to prevent two users writing in same file in same time.
This code works perfectly on my windows environment (Eclipse and windows 2000) but as soon as I put jar file in UNIX (SOLARIS) it doesn�t work and two clients can change at same time!
Anyone has an idea what is going on?
Note: I put sleep just to be able to make a delay so I can try to have access from second client session to test my lock
Following is my code:
  public synchronized void commitConfiguration() throws ConfigurationDataException
      try {     
          // Get a file channel for the file
          File file = new File(uri);
          FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
          FileChannel  channel = outputStream.getChannel();
          FileLock lock = fileLock(channel);
          if(lock != null) {
              try {
                  processCommit(outputStream);
                  Thread.sleep(8000);
              }finally {
                  Thread.sleep(8000);
                  lock.release();
                  channel.close();
          //reload the configuration
          refreshConfiguration();                            
    } catch (Exception e1) {       
        throw new ConfigurationDataException("Cannot commit file, because: " + e1.getMessage());
  private static FileLock fileLock( FileChannel  channel) throws IOException {
      // Use the file channel to create a lock on the file. This is a share lock not exclusive so
      // other users can still read but not set
      // This method blocks until it can retrieve the lock.
      //FileLock lock = channel.lock(0L, Long.MAX_VALUE, true);
      // Try acquiring the lock without blocking. This method returns
      // null or throws an exception if the file is already locked.
      FileLock lock =null;
      try {
          lock = channel.tryLock();
      } catch (OverlappingFileLockException e) {
          // File is already locked in this thread or virtual machine
      if(lock == null) {
          lock = channel.lock();
      return lock;     
  }Thanks,

Answer 1

So what should we do to have the file locked?
The Issue is I have one shared file system which all
of my servers (it is a HA system which there are two
from each server) having access to same file and I
want them to be in synch, so I am trying to lock the
file so no body even from other JVM (second server)
cannot edit the file at the same time.
Is there any way to handle this issue with this
feature of java I mean FileLock and Channel API?Do the Java programs in the other servers also have the code to try and lock the file? Although unix has advisory locks, from what I have read, they should still work as long as you make sure all the Java programs that access the file attempt to get the lock. If any non-Java programs are using the file then they to would need to try and lock the file (not sure if they would play nice with the Java programs).