Search⌘ K
AI Features

AtomicReference

Explore the concept of AtomicReference in Java concurrency. Understand how it differs from volatile and primitive atomic assignments, and how it enables atomic check-then-act operations for thread-safe programming.

If you are interviewing, consider buying our number#1 course for Java Multithreading Interviews.

Overview

A reference type is a data type that represents an instance of a Java class, i.e. it is a type other than one of the Java’s primitive types. For instance:

 ...