The use of a serialized list structure requires a set of protocols for sharing locks. You should consider issues such as the following when you design your locking protocols:

• What list structure resource does each lock represent?
• How will I maintain information about the lock requests so my notify exit can make decisions to resolve lock contention?
• How will I manage multiple, asynchronous lock requests – both my own and those of other serialized list structure users?
• How will my notify exit decide how to handle lock contention?
• How will a lock be released if the owning connection cannot free it?
• How will my application handle recovery for work that was being performed by a failed connection?