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 ...

The synchronized keyword is another way to achieve thread synchronization in Java, which can be applied to a method or a block of code and uses an implicit lock associated with the object or the ...

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 Part 4 ...