From your brief and slightly confusing explanation of your project I don't see any need for you to be using OpenMP at all. All that you want to do can be done entirely within Java which has good (enough) facilities for concurrent programming.
Futures can also be given a look for your project. Which I think is not used by many traditional programmers for parallelizing their work.
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