How should the notify wait mechanism of Java be called?

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What is an appropriate name? I read notify/wait should barely used for anything else, but building condition queues. Another possible name might be thread coordination. In the Java concurrency tutorial its named Guarded Blocks. Actually I find no one of these suitable. Is there a better keyword to describe this mechanism?

M Platvoet · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-24 11:06:17Z

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That would be a Monitor

answered Jun 24, 2011 at 11:06

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ewan.chalmers · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-24 11:13:28Z

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Thread coordination seems reasonable. The wait/notify methods coordinate via the object's monitor. Monitor is maybe the concept you are looking for.

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:48:05Z

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Doug Lea factored Object's monitor (synchronized) and the wait/notify mechanisms into the Lock and Condition interfaces respectively.

These support richer and more fine-grained functionality than Object's monitor, but are explicitly providing the same functionality.

Calling wait/notify Condition is fairly standard.

See this question for some usage details on Locks/Condition

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