You may be used to seeing the wait (), notify (), and notifyAll () methods called within synchronized methods. But here's a subtlety that you may not know: The caller of the wait (), notify ...

The `Object` class in Java has three final methods that allow threads to communicate about the locked status of a resource. It tells the calling thread to give up the lock and go to sleep until some ...

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 ...