Synchronization of ArrayList and HashMap

[Monoj Roy]

ArrayList and Vector are List Implementation but they have a difference that Vector's methods are Synchronized and ArrayList is not .

The same Logic for the HashMap and Hashtable .

Now I want to make ArrayList and HashMap synchronized .Is there any way I can do the same without using Synchronized keyword ? That is I dont want to put all the methods inside a Synchronized block .

[bart zagers]

There is the Collections.synchronizedList method for this. But be sure to read the javadoc explaining you still have to synchronize when you iterate over the list.

[Monoj Roy]

Thanks ..very much

[Peter Chase]

Be careful. Synchronising an individual List or Map is rarely sufficient to make a piece of code thread-safe. It makes the actual List or Map immune to corruption due to multi-threaded access, but there are almost always other concurrency issues to address; these very often mean that coarser-grained synchronisation is needed.

For those rare occasions when synchronising an individual List or Map really is what you need, then Collections.synchronizedList/Map() methods are indeed useful.
[ November 05, 2007: Message edited by: Peter Chase ]