In question 7 page 748, I think the answer C could be correct.
The question says only that a and b are two private variables, they're not necessarily primitives. Thanks to auto-boxing "a" could be an object of type Integer so we could synchronize on it.
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Some of the questions in some exams not directly from Sun occasionally put harder questions in so that when you get to the Official Test, you pass the test, which is the true objective for everybody ... but when anyone says could be an object, I can be sure that I will not sync() on it. There are way too many issues in sync to let an ambiguity be the rest basis for one's design. [ November 25, 2007: Message edited by: Nicholas Jordan ]
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Originally posted by damien lepage: ...Thanks to auto-boxing "a" could be an object of type Integer so we could synchronize on it...
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That's good thinking, but if you try to verify this with some test code, I think you will find it does not work. Note that within the scope of the set method, 'a' is a local variable of type int -- it is not a reference to the instance variable 'a' of type Integer. Therefore, you will get a compilation error...
unexpected type found : int required: reference
So this would work if the block was synchronized on this.a instead of simply a. But that's not what's shown in option C.
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Thanks Marc. You're right, I missed this shadowing.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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