Wait() and Notify()
Explore how Java threads coordinate using wait and notify methods while ensuring proper synchronization with object monitors. Understand the importance of using a while loop to handle spurious wakeups safely and how to avoid common synchronization exceptions. This lesson helps you grasp essential thread communication techniques for concurrency management and interview readiness.
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Now that we understand how the synchronized and volatile keywords protect shared state, we must look at how threads can communicate and coordinate. Sometimes, a thread needs to pause its execution until a specific condition is met. We achieve this using the wait() and notify() mechanisms built into every Java object.
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Explain the wait() method.
To illustrate what happens when a thread does not own the required object monitor, ...