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Re: Java thread

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Jack wrote:
>> For Java thread, how to ensure that wait() does not miss notify()?
>> Otherwise the thread will hang and can not shut down.
> 
> For example in the following code:
> 
> while(true)
> {
>     doSomeThing(); //Do some operation once a day
>     wait(24 * 3600); //sleep for one day. LINE1
> }
> 
> The thread blocks at LINE1 for one day. When the program shuts down,
> if the notify() is missing, then the program will hang.

That is not accurate. You failed to synchronize (using the 'synchronized' keyword) on a monitor, so the call to 'wait()' is not legitimate.  

Also, when the program shuts down, it cannot hang, because it has shut down.

Read the documentation:
<http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#wait(long)>
_et seq_
The Javadocs also recommend reading Josh Bloch's _Effective Java_  Use the latest edition; the Javadocs' recommendation is old.  To that I'll add _Java Concurrency in Practice_ by Brian Goetz, _et al._

Unfortunately I don't find an update to Doug Lea's _Concurrent Programming in Java_ that takes into account the changes in the Java language since the 2nd edition was published twelve years ago.  Any book on concurrent Java programming prior to Java 5 will not help.

<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/>
<http://jcip.net/>

Read the documentation.  

-- 
Lew

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