I am designing an application that queries a database for image file locations, and then downloads the images to a local directory by FTP. Both of these two operations are somewhat time consuming due to the volume of queries / images. I was going to use threading to run these simultaneeouly. I was hoping for some suggestions about my plan, and if there is a better way, before I start to work on this in detail:

My initial thought was to have one subroutine that just pushes the results of the database query onto a shared array... and the FTP download will just shift off the image locations and download the files. When it runs out of files in the array, it will wait for a couple of seconds to determine if the query is complete.

Is this conceptually the right way to tackle this problem? Or am I heading down the wrong path entirely?

Thanks for any suggestions

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