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This example shows a Guarded Blocks example in Java using wait-notify. The main thread creates a worker thread and waits for it to complete or for a timeout. The worker thread sleeps instead of doing ...
This is because there is far less reason to use wait and notify. Since Java 5, the platform has provided higher-level concurrency utilities that do the sorts of things you formerly had to hand-code ...
This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...