High-Performance Java Platform Computing - Chapter 4

Monitors, at their most general, are classes that control threads’ access to resources. Java synchronization is based on the variety of monitors that were developed in the early 1970s by Per Brinch-Hansen and C. A. R. Hoare, but Java synchronization is not as well developed as Brinch-Hansen and Hoare monitors are. In this chapter, we will compare Java’s synchronization to monitors. We will present our Monitor class. [via]

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