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 ...

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 ...

When a synchronized method call returns, or when a method calls wait (), another thread gets access to the object. If a thread was put in the queue by a call to wait (), it must be "unfrozen" by a ...

2) In case of synchronized block, thread acquires lock when they enter synchronized block and release when they leave synchronized block. On the other hand in case of synchronized method, lock is ...