Java Language

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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.

Modifiers

synchronized

A synchronized class method synchronizes on the monitor associated with the Class object of that class.

A synchronized method synchronizes on the monitor associated with instance it is invoked onto.