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  • Difference between sleep() and wait() in Java

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    1. Java sleep() and wait() – Discussion sleep() is a method which is used to pause the process for few seconds or the time we want to. But in case of wait() method, thread goes in waiting state and it won’t come back automatically until we call the notify() or notifyAll(). The major difference is that wait() releases the lock or monitor while sleep() doesn’t…

  • How to work with wait(), notify() and notifyAll() in Java?

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    Java concurrency is a pretty complex topic and requires a lot of attention while writing application code dealing with multiple threads accessing one/more shared resources at any given time. Java 5, introduced some classes like BlockingQueue and Executors which take away some of the complexity by providing easy to use APIs. Programmers using concurrency classes will feel a lot…