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Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook, Second Edition
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One of the most significant improvements offered by locks is the ReadWriteLock
interface and the ReentrantReadWriteLock
class, the unique class that implements that interface. This class has two locks: one for read operations and one for write operations. There can be more than one thread using read operations simultaneously, but only one thread can use write operations. If a thread is doing a write operation, other threads can't write or read.
In this recipe, you will learn how to use a ReadWriteLock
interface by implementing a program that uses it to control access to an object that stores the prices of two products.
You should read the Synchronizing a block of code with a lock recipe to better understand this recipe.
Follow these steps to implement the example:
PricesInfo
that stores information about the prices of two products:public class PricesInfo {
double
attributes...