If you need to control access to certain pieces of data in a class when writing multithreaded applications, see how you can use the volatile keyword to get a similar effect as using the ...

The primary tool for managing coordination between threads in Java programs is the synchronized keyword. Because of the rules involving cache flushing and invalidation, a synchronized block in the ...

Synchronized statements To create a synchronized statement, you use the synchronized keyword with an expression that evaluates to an object reference, as in the reverseOrder() method below: ...

I next explore Java’s synchronization mechanism in terms of monitors and locks, and the synchronized keyword.