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Difference between synchronized method and synchrozed block

posted 11/4/2009 12:45:03 PM

Anwar Hussain Ranch Hand Joined: Jul 24, 2009 Posts: 35

Hi, Can some body explain the difference between synchronized method and synchrozed block. Thanks

Patricia Samuel Ranch Hand Joined: Sep 12, 2007 Posts: 300

posted 11/4/2009 1:08:12 PM

See it here

Anwar Hussain Ranch Hand Joined: Jul 24, 2009 Posts: 35

posted 11/4/2009 1:18:57 PM

Patricia Samuel wrote:

See it here

https://www.coderanch.com/t/469462/java/java/Difference-synchronized-method-synchrozed-block

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Its confusing me
Patricia Samuel Ranch Hand Joined: Sep 12, 2007 Posts: 300

posted 11/4/2009 1:23:26 PM

with a synchronized block you can choose what to synchronize on. With a synchronized method, an instance method always synchronizes on the instance, a static method always synchronizes on the class.

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synchronized(this) can have any object you want to synchronize where as when a method is synchronized it will work with instance for which it is called.

Anwar Hussain Ranch Hand Joined: Jul 24, 2009 Posts: 35

posted 11/4/2009 2:06:59 PM

Patricia Samuel wrote:

with a synchronized block you can choose what to synchronize on. With a synchronized method, an instance method always synchronizes on the instance, a static method always synchronizes on the class.

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synchronized(this) can have any object you want to synchronize where as when a method is synchronized it will work with instance for which it is called.

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So when a thread is in the middle of execution of the synchronized block with 'this' as argument , can another thread call a synchronzed method of that same object???
Embla Tingeling Ranch Hand Joined: Oct 22, 2009 Posts: 237

posted 11/4/2009 4:49:35 PM

A nwar Hussain wrote:

So when a thread is in the middle of execution of the synchronized block with 'this' as argument , can another thread call a synchronzed method of that same object???

It doesn't matter whether a whole method is synchronized or just a block. Synchronized always means the synchronized code section can be run by one thread at a time only.

Vivek Singh Ranch Hand Joined: Oct 27, 2009 Posts: 92

posted 11/4/2009 5:03:54 PM

A nwar Hussain wrote:

So when a thread is in the middle of execution of the synchronized block with 'this' as argument , can another thread call a synchronzed method of that same object???

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Form K&B "When you synchronize a method, the object used to invoke the method is the object whose lock must be acquired. But when you synchronize a block of code,
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you specify which object's lock you want to use as the lock, so you could, for example, use some third-party object as the lock for this piece of code. That gives you the ability to have more than one lock for code synchronization within a single object."

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