How does FileLock work?

I've been trying to use FileLock to get exclusive access to a file in order to:

• delete it
• rename it
• write to it

Because on Windows (at least) it seems that you cannot delete, rename, or write to a file that is already in use. The code I've written looks something like this:

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import java.nio.channels.FileLock;

public abstract class LockedFileOperation {

    public void execute(File file) throws IOException {

        if (!file.exists()) {
            throw new FileNotFoundException(file.getAbsolutePath());
        }

        FileChannel channel = new RandomAccessFile(file, "rw").getChannel();

        try {
            // Get an exclusive lock on the whole file
            FileLock lock = channel.lock();

            try {
                doWithLockedFile(file);
            } finally {
                lock.release();
            }
        } finally {
            channel.close();
        }
    }

    public abstract void doWithLockedFile(File file) throws IOException;
}

Here are some unit tests that demonstrate the problem. You'll need to have Apache commons-io on your classpath to run the 3rd test.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

public class LockedFileOperationTest extends TestCase {

    private File testFile;

    @Override
    protected void setUp() throws Exception {

        String tmpDir = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
        testFile = new File(tmpDir, "test.tmp");

        if (!testFile.exists() && !testFile.createNewFile()) {
            throw new IOException("Failed to create test file: " + testFile);
        }
    }

    public void testRename() throws IOException {
        new LockedFileOperation() {

            @Override
            public void doWithLockedFile(File file) throws IOException {
                if (!file.renameTo(new File("C:/Temp/foo"))) {
                    fail();
                }
            }
        }.execute(testFile);
    }

    public void testDelete() throws IOException {
        new LockedFileOperation() {

            @Override
            public void doWithLockedFile(File file) throws IOException {
                if (!file.delete()) {
                    fail();
                }
            }
        }.execute(testFile);
    }

    public void testWrite() throws IOException {
        new LockedFileOperation() {

            @Override
            public void doWithLockedFile(File file) throws IOException {
                org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.writeStringToFile(file, "file content");
            }
        }.execute(testFile);
    }
}

None of the tests pass. The first 2 fail, and the last throws this exception:

java.io.IOException: The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:247)
    at org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.write(IOUtils.java:784)
    at org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.write(IOUtils.java:808)
    at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.writeStringToFile(FileUtils.java:1251)
    at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.writeStringToFile(FileUtils.java:1265)

It seems like the lock() method places a lock on the file which then prevents me from renaming/deleting/writing it. My assumption was that locking the file would give me exclusive access to the file, so I could then rename/delete/write it without worrying about whether any other process is also accessing it.

Either I'm misunderstanding FileLock or it's not an appropriate solution for my problem.