Re: Multithreaded XML file parsing?

Some followup responses:

In the end I did go ahead a use just a single threaded instance

parsing the XML file using SAX, and the performance was much better

than I had initially expected. However I have a follow question:

One area in my code that could benefit from threading is the following:

File[] dirChildren = gmlDir.listFiles(filter);

       for(File aFile : dirChildren) {

           System.out.println("Got here!");

           //Iterate through the list of files and start loading GML files:

           GMLThread thread =  new GMLThread(aFile);

           thread.run();

           try {

               thread.join();

           }

           catch(InterruptedException ie) {

               ie.printStackTrace();

           }

           System.out.println("Got here! 2");

       }

I'm not loading one XML file, but several in a directory. However, I

can't figure out how to iterate through the File arraylist and start

several parsing threads, whilst making the main application thread

wait until they've have all completed? The current code above only

makes the "for each" loop wait until the thread its spawned has

completed, which isn't the behaviour I want.