Friday, October 3, 2008

Thread Synchronization

One of the strengths of the Java programming language is its support for multithreading at the language level. Much of this support centers on synchronization: coordinating activities and data access among multiple threads. The mechanism that Java uses to support synchronization is the monitor. This chapter describes monitors and shows how they are used by the Java virtual machine. It describes how one aspect of monitors, the locking and unlocking of data, is supported in the instruction set.

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1 comment:

JP @ logging in java tutorial said...

here is another good link about java synchronization : How Synchronization works in Java