Re: How to use wait() and notifyAll() in simple container object

From:
"Bryan" <BTRichardson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
18 Dec 2006 16:02:52 -0800
Message-ID:
<1166486571.996667.246330@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com>
Thanks for the comments guys. Looks like I'll go with synchronizing
the get/set methods!

On Dec 17, 12:44 pm, John Ersatznom <j.ers...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

John Ersatznom wrote:

Lew wrote:

public class Container {

        private boolean value = false; // redundant assignment

        public Container(boolean value) {
                this.value = value;
        }

        public synchronized boolean get() {
                return value;
        }

        public synchronized void set(boolean value) {
                this.value = value;
        }

}


Looks like a mutable, synchronized Boolean. Might want to consider a
class name like SynchronizedBoolean. Might want to rename the
get()/set() methods, either to follow JavaBean conventions or to mimic
similar methods in java.lang.Boolean.

- Lew


Why not

public class Container<Foo> {
    private Foo contents;
    public Container (Foo initialContents) {
        contents = initialContents;
    }
    public synchronized Foo getContents () {
        return contents;
    }
    public synchronized setContents (Foo newContents) {
        contents = newContents;
    }
}

Container<Foo> fooHolder = new Container<Foo>(new Boolean(false));Meh, make that last


Container<Boolean> booleanHolder = new Container<Boolean>(new
Boolean(false));

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