How does Synchronized code interact with other applications

[David Kerber]

I have a situation where my java-Tomcat application will be writing 
lines of data one at a time (but quickly and lots of them, eventually 
approx 2 million  lines per day, though only about 500k right now)  to a 
disk file, and another, Delphi, appication will be reading and 
processing those lines, one line at a time.  I have done some reading 
about the Synchronized keyword and I *think* I understand how it 
interacts with other java apps, but can't tell if that extends to 
applications running elsewhere in the OS (Windows in this case).  If I 
use a Synchronized block around my code that does the writing to disk, 
will the Delphi app (assuming competent programmers) be able to monitor 
and read that file without me closing it after each write?  The Delphi 
app does not need to write to the file, only read from it.

Thanks for any info or links!
DAve


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