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Concurrent Programming in Java™: Design Principles and Patterns, Second Edition
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Concurrent Programming in Java™: Design Principles and Patterns, Second Edition

by Doug Lea
October 1999
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 13m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 3. State Dependence

Two kinds of enabling conditions are generally needed to perform any action:

External.An object receives a message requesting that an action be performed.

Internal.The object is in an appropriate state to perform the action.

As a non-programming example, suppose you are asked to write down a telephone message. To do this, you need to have a pencil and paper (or some other recording device).

Exclusion techniques are mainly concerned with maintaining invariants. State-dependent concurrency control imposes additional concerns surrounding preconditions and postconditions. Actions may have state-based preconditions that need not always hold when clients invoke methods on the host object. Conversely, actions may have postconditions ...

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