Re: Two more multithreading questions
Knute Johnson wrote:
I've got two specific scenarios I want to ask about:
1) I have a class with an instance variable that is a reference to a
JDialog. In one thread I create new instances of JDialog and make them
visible. They might get closed in this thread as well. In another
thread I close the JDialog using the class instance variable. To ensure
that my dialog closing thread always has a reference to the current
dialog I created the instance variable with volatile. Is this adequate
to guarantee that my closing thread always has a reference to the latest
dialog?
I believe most javax.swing component access is supposed to be done in
the event handling thread anyway. Swing was not designed to be
multithread-safe.
2) If I want to access/modify an Object in two threads, can I use a
reference to any Object in the synchronize statement to do that? It
doesn't have to be the reference to the Object that I am trying to
protect as long as the accesses are all in synchronized blocks?
Two threads can be in synchronized blocks at the same time, as long as
they are synchronized on different objects. You don't have to use the
object you are protecting, but all accesses to that object must be
synchronized on the same lock object.
Patricia
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