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Re: What object do "static synchronized" methods synchronize
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Wed Nov 1 18:38:54 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:43:54 -0800
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: rbk@ibeam.jf.intel.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Bob,
> I've verified that a method may be declared "static synchronized", and that
> the synchronization works (ie, remove the "synchronized" attribute and it
> races). Now I'm curious: what object does such a method synchronize
> against? The class?
Yes. It is the class. You can achieve the same effect by writing:
synchronized (Class.forName("Foo")) {
...
}
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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