September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
18h 47m
English
Content preview from Java Coding Problems
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Thread safety
Imagine an application using thousands of mutable String objects and dealing with thread-safety code. Fortunately, in this case, our imagined scenario will not become a reality, thanks to immutability. Any immutable object is thread-safe by its nature. This means that strings can be shared and manipulated by multiple threads, with no risk of corruption and inconsistency.