what does it mean that hashtable is synchronized and hashmaps are not?

[Raghda Ismail]

hi everybody ,
please i need to know what does it mean that hash table is synchronized and hash maps are not?

Thanks

[Henry Wong]

Raghda Ismail wrote:please i need to know what does it mean that hash table is synchronized and hash maps are not?

It just means that the methods of the Hashtable class are declared as synchronized, while the methods of the HashMap class are not. As for what that means, you can start with the Sun tutorial on threads...

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/concurrency/

Henry

[Raghda Ismail]

thanks Henry