Understanding Java threads – read the whole series. Part 1: Introducing threads and runnables; Part 2: Thread synchronization; Part 3: Thread scheduling, wait/notify, and thread interruption ...

After a synchronized method completes, whether it completes by returning or by throwing an exception, the lock is released. Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., publisher of Artima Developer ...

code block, the thread must acquire the object’s lock. When the thread leaves the synchronized code, the lock must be released. Acquiring and releasing an object’s lock requires time and ...

This isn't so much as a "how do I do it" question, because that works. What I have is more of a conceptual question. If we take the following statements:1. For a given object, only one thread may ...