Using the following program, after a variable numer of iterarions, a MidiUnavailableException is thrown on the call to [MidiDevice].open().

If the try-catch block is uncommented (program sleeping for 2 seconds before the next open() call), no exception is thrown on 100 iterations.

The same problem doesn't appear at all for MIDI OUT devices.

exception:
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Exception in thread "main" javax.sound.midi.MidiUnavailableException: Device or resource busy
at com.sun.media.sound.MidiInDevice.nOpen(Native Method)
at com.sun.media.sound.MidiInDevice.implOpen(MidiInDevice.java:45)
at com.sun.media.sound.AbstractMidiDevice.doOpen(AbstractMidiDevice.java:116)
at com.sun.media.sound.AbstractMidiDevice.open(AbstractMidiDevice.java:88)
at OpenClose2.main(OpenClose2.java:44)
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program:
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/*
 * OpenClose.java
 */

import javax.sound.midi.*;


/*
  run:
  java OpenClose2 100 in for 100 iterations on the MIDI IN device
  java OpenClose2 16 out for 16 iterations on the MIDI OUT device
*/
public class OpenClose2 {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
int numIterations = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
MidiDevice.Info[] infos = MidiSystem.getMidiDeviceInfo();
MidiDevice outDevice = null;
MidiDevice inDevice = null;
out("available devices:");
for (int i = 0; i < infos.length; i++) {
out(infos[i].toString());
MidiDevice device = MidiSystem.getMidiDevice(infos[i]);
if (! (device instanceof Synthesizer)) {
if (device.getMaxReceivers() != 0) {
outDevice = device;
}
if (device.getMaxTransmitters() != 0) {
inDevice = device;
}
}
}
out("Using MIDI OUT Device: " + outDevice);
out("Using MIDI IN Device: " + inDevice);

MidiDevice testDevice = null;
if (args[1].equals("in")) {
testDevice = inDevice;
} else {
testDevice = outDevice;
}
for (int i = 0; i < numIterations; i++) {
out("@@@ ITERATION: " + i);
testDevice.open();
testDevice.close();

// with the following code uncommented, the program runs slowly,
// but without errors.

// try {
// Thread.sleep(2000);
// } catch (InterruptedException e) {
// }

}
    }


    private static void out(String message) {
System.out.println(message);
    }
}


/*** OpenClose2.java ***/
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