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Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects?

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Date	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:20:02 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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On 7/22/2011 12:08 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> On 7/21/2011 5:33 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> ...
>> For all the simple cases:
>>
>> public class Foobar {
>> ...
>> private Object lock = new Object();
>> ...
>> public void test() {
>> ...
>> synchronized(lock) {
>> ...
>> }
>> ...
>> }
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> having to use LockingObject instead of Object would have worked fine.
>>
>> But in more complex scenarios where you have multiple methods modifying
>> multiple objects, then the only safe way is to lock on the actual
>> objects (obviously in a fixed order to avoid deadlocks).
>
> I'm not sure how that would have worked for synchronized methods, as
> distinct from synchronized blocks.

It does not.

Synchronized methods are only for the simple cases.

Arne

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Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-21 20:33 -0400
  Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-21 21:08 -0700
    Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-22 10:20 -0400

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