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Revision as of 03:23, 21 March 2018
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Keywords
Statements
synchronized
The synchronized statement acquires a mutual-exclusion lock on behalf of the executing thread, executes a block, then releases the lock. While the executing thread owns the log, no other thread may acquire the lock.
synchronized (expression) block
The type of expression must be a reference type.