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Doubt regarding working of wait() and notifyAll() in Threads

posted 8/16/2010 8:53:37 PM

Mansukhdeep Thind Ranch Hand Joined: Jul 27, 2010 Posts: 1156
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Hi all Please have a look at the code below:

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Doubt regarding working of wait() and notifyAll() in Threads (Threads forum at JavaRanch)

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According to my understanding, the execution of the code is as follows: 1> A separate stack is created for main() thread and it is loaded in to the JVM. 2> An instance of Calculator class is created. 3> This instance(calculator) is passed on to the overloaded constructor of the Reader class which initializes variable c and start() is called on that instance. 4> The overridden run() method runs. It acquires a lock on the newly created Thread instance (c) using synchronized(c) and prints "Waiting for calculation to complete..." 5> The currently executing thread (c) is placed on hold using c.wait(); 6> Similarly, two more times steps 3,4,5 are repeated and in Toto 3 new call stacks have been created and the 3 threads have been placed on them respectively. 6> Next, the calculator thread is started and the calculation is completed in the run() method of Calculator class. 7> Finally, after calculation has been completed, the calculator thread notifies the threads in runnable condition (all three threads created above) that not to wait anymore and execute the following: System.out.println("Total is : " + c.total); and we get the output:

Waiting for calculation to complete... Waiting for calculation to complete... Waiting for calculation to complete... Total is : 4950 Total is : 4950 Total is : 4950
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Please correct me if I am wrong. Kindly suggest if I missed out on something or made a mistake as I have studied Threads for the first time. Regards Mansukhdeep Singh
~ Mansukh Ernest Friedman-Hill author and iconoclast Marshal Joined: Jul 08, 2003 Posts: 24093

posted 8/16/2010 8:57:51 PM

That is a good description of what happens in this program, yes. We have a forum for discussing Threads, and I am going to move this there.

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Mansukhdeep Thind Ranch Hand Joined: Jul 27, 2010 Posts: 1156
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posted 8/16/2010 10:25:31 PM

Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:

That is a good description of what happens in this program, yes. We have a forum for discussing Threads, and I am going to move this there.

Thank you Ernest.

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