To avoid liveness and safety failures, never cede control to the client within a synchronized method or block. In other words, inside a synchronized region, do not invoke a method that is designed to ...

The 'synchronized' keyword in Java ensures atomicity and visibility of shared variables by locking a method or block, allowing only one thread to execute it at a time, preventing race conditions.

Synchronization in Java concurrency ensures orderly and safe execution of shared resources among multiple threads. It involves concepts like mutual exclusion, visibility, and ordering.

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 ...

This month’s Under the Hood looks at thread synchronization in both the Java language and the Java virtual machine (JVM). This article is the last in the long series of bytecode articles I began ...