Record Locking question

Hi,
I have the following situation:
1) A batch process is running within a transaction with intension of commiting the changes at end if the process completes
2) An online system (internet 3Tier app) issues an UPDATE statement on a record that is locked by the batch process. This UPDATE statement is not in a transaction.
3) The problem is the UPDATE statement waits until the batch process either performs a COMMIT or ROLLBACK. I want it to return immediately so I can notify the online user.
How can I have the UPDATE come back rather than wait. I do not really want to issue a SELECT statement with FOR UPDATE NOWAIT just before the UPDATE statement. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the reply.
Normally I would use "select ... for update no wait" especially in desktop type applications. But in the internet world, when dealing with COM objects, ADO, and connection pooling, I cannot issue a start transaction, then issue select with for update nowait, and then show the html form to the user to make changes. The user may sit on the screen for a while. In the meantime, I have a database connection that is being tied up.
So for record concurrency, we used a simple counter mechanism where any update (internet app, or desktop app) would update the counter. Any on update whe add this counter field to the where clause so if somone else has changed the data, the update would result in 0 rows affected. Normally this works well except in a situation where a desktop app is running a batch process and has not committed yet. In this case the update just waits.
I know for if I juggle the data around a bit I can issue select for update no wait, then build the update recordset, and issue update, and them commit. I was looking for something that can return the update statement immediately with some sort of ORA error.
Sorry for the long note.

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