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What's the use of having a synchronized static method?
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Jean Fore
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Joined: Feb 23, 2006
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I undesrtand that the use of having a synchronized method is, no 2 threads will try to execute one method at a time and corrupt the state of an object. So synchronized is useful when it come to instance methods. But what's the use of having a synchronized static method?
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JEAN.
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Paul Clapham
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It's the same reason. Why do you think there is a difference? Threads can execute static methods just as easily as instance methods.
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Ilja Preuss
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Joined: Jul 11, 2001
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Synchronizing static methods is useful when the method accesses a shared "static" resource, such as a static field, an external resource etc.
A static method synchronizes on the Class object of the class it is declared on (instead of "this").
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