“Alfonse, wait here for my signal!”

  • Authors:
  • Stephen J. Hartley

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science and Information Systems, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '99 The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

At first glance, Java monitors appear easy to use. However, a deeper analysis reveals that they are surprisingly tricky, suffer from subtle race conditions, and are actually a low-level synchronization tool in stark contrast to the reputation Java has as a modern well-engineered language. The programmer is responsible for building safe and robust synchronization structures from Java monitors.