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posted 1/19/2011 8:38:51 AM

Swerrgy Smith Ranch Hand Joined: Mar 26, 2010 Posts: 52

Dear all, In the book of K&B, there is an example about how to use notifyAll() for thread communication. However, in the class Calculator below, if I remove the notifyAll(), the program stills works well. Can anybody tell me why?

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And here is the result, it's the same with or without notifyAll().
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Bert Bates author Sheriff Joined: Oct 14, 2002 Posts: 8742

posted 1/19/2011 9:39:25 AM

This topic is no longer on the SCJP 6 exam. It might still be on the SCJP 5 exam, but really, it's hard to imagine a good reason to take the SCJP 5 exam at this point, so let's move it and the discussion can be continued in Java in General.

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posted 1/20/2011 1:14:54 AM

Specifically, what part of this is not on the exam? Threads, synchronized, wait()
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Joined: Dec 27, 2010 Posts: 35

and notifyAll()? I understood serialization was not longer on the exam and I am familiar with the updated objectives. Is there anything new on the exam that is not covered in K&B SCJP 6? Sorry if this is out of scope of the topic. I have been studying threads a lot for the exam...regardless I know it will be helpful in the real world but my focus is to pass the exam.

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Sunny Jain Ranch Hand Joined: Jul 23, 2007 Posts: 433
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posted 1/20/2011 8:37:34 AM

This is actually a very simple example. 3 threads are running all on same instance, which means - synchronized(this) means same for all threads. Lets say we have T-1, T-2,T-3 as threads and C-1 is calculator instance. Let assume that > T-2 got the lock over C-1, this leads to T-1 and T-3 both on waiting stage. > T-2 finishes the calculation and released the lock over C-1. Now you can do either of two things1) Notify all the other threads waiting for C-1, by calling C-1.notifyAll( ) or this.notifyAll( ). order of T-1 and T-3 will be random. could be either T-1 then T-3 or vice versa. 2) Leave it as it is, in this case JVM will schedule the running of threads by its own. order of T-1 and T-3 will be random. could be either T-1 then T-3 or vice versa.

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