Java 9 Concurrency Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

The following screenshot shows the output of the new version of the example. No matter how many times you execute it, you will always obtain the correct result:

Let's see the different uses of the synchronized keyword in the example:

• First, we protected the vehiclePay() method. If two or more Sensor tasks call this method at the same time, only one will execute it and the rest will wait for their turn; therefore, the final amount will always be correct.
• We used two different objects to control access to the car and motorcycle counters. This way, one Sensor task can modify the numberCars attribute and another Sensor task can ...