Often we want to make sure that only 1 instance our application running.
Because something terrible could happen when more than 1 instance running (for example the whole server would exploded and that would make you fired ;) )

Nevertheless what the reason, one of the way to make this happen is by creating a lock file as a sign that an instance is currently running.
So you application will have this flow:

  1. Check if the lock file exists.
  2. Try to delete the lock file to check if there’s really a running process lock the file.
  3. Get the file lock.
  4. If failed to get the lock file, show error that there’s already an instance running –> the end
  5. If successfully get the lock then go on with your application want to do.
  6. When application ended/closed release the lock and delete the file lock.

package test.jimmy.filelock;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import java.nio.channels.FileLock;

public class MyApp {

    private static File f;
    private static FileChannel channel;
    private static FileLock lock;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            f = new File("RingOnRequest.lock");
            // Check if the lock exist
            if (f.exists()) {
                // if exist try to delete it
                f.delete();
            }
            // Try to get the lock
            channel = new RandomAccessFile(f, "rw").getChannel();
            lock = channel.tryLock();
            if(lock == null)
            {
                // File is lock by other application
                channel.close();
                throw new RuntimeException("Only 1 instance of MyApp can run.");
            }
            // Add shutdown hook to release lock when application shutdown
            ShutdownHook shutdownHook = new ShutdownHook();
            Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(shutdownHook);

            //Your application tasks here..
            System.out.println("Running");
            try {
                Thread.sleep(10000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            throw new RuntimeException("Could not start process.", e);
        }

    }

    public static void unlockFile() {
        // release and delete file lock
        try {
            if(lock != null) {
                lock.release();
                channel.close();
                f.delete();
            }
        } catch(IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    static class ShutdownHook extends Thread {

        public void run() {
            unlockFile();
        }
    }

}

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