ReadWriteLock
This lesson examines the ReadWriteLock interface and the implementing class ReentrantReadWriteLock. The lock is intended to allow multiple readers to read at a time but only allow a single writer to write.
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The ReadWriteLock
interface is part of Java’s java.util.concurrent.locks
package. The only implementing class for the interface is ReentrantReadWriteLock
. The ReentrantReadWriteLock
can be locked by multiple readers at the same time while writer threads have to wait. Conversely, the ReentrantReadWriteLock
can be locked by a single writer thread at a ...