what is volatile?

[deepak kushwaha]

i have see a question that say can a method be declared volatile. what that mean?

[Rob Spoor]

Volatile only applies to static and instance fields, and it means that the value will never be cached. As a result, all threads will always use the most up-to-date value.

[Tom Reilly]

Here's a topic that discusses volatile.

[Arun C. Giridharan]

ok,so if i have to assign multiple value for my attribute(state) ...how to do it???

[David Newton]

Arun Giridharan wrote:ok,so if i have to assign multiple value for my attribute(state) ...how to do it???

What?

[deepak kushwaha]

thanks tom

[Campbell Ritchie]

Probably best moved as too difficult for "beginning"