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synchronized lock the object or method

posted 10/15/2001 4:15 PM

R K Singh Ranch Hand Joined: Oct 15, 2001 Posts: 5369

here is the question one of my friend asked me: 1. public class MyThread implements Runnable { 2. private String holdA = "This is "; 3. private int[] holdB = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}; 4. 5. public static void main(String args[]) { 6. MyThread z = new MyThread(); 7. (new Thread(z)).start(); 8. (new Thread(z)).start(); 9. } 10. 11. public synchronized void run() {
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12. for(int w = 0;w < 10;w++) { 13. System.out.println(holdA + holdB[w] + "."); 14. } 15. } 16. } They say answer is : the program prints each value in the holdB array at the end of the "This is " line. Each value is printed in order from 1 to 10 and, after the value 10 prints, it starts printing the values 1 to 10 in order again. ----------------But I read that lock is on object and you can not execute the same synchronized method of the SAME object... and as here there are two different objects of Thread, how they could be synchronized?? [This message has been edited by ravish kumar (edited October 15, 2001).]

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William Brogden Author and all-around good cowpoke Rancher Joined: Mar 22, 2000 Posts: 12235

posted 10/16/2001 2:55 AM

There is one MyThread (bad name for demonstration) object with two competing Threads trying to execute the synchronized method in the one object. Therefore one Thread runs to completion before the other gets to start. Bill

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R K Singh Ranch Hand Joined: Oct 15, 2001 Posts: 5369

posted 10/16/2001 11:54 AM

Thanks Bill I got you.

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