why notifyAll do nothing

[Paul Sun]

Hi Everyone:
I use wait/notify to implement lock/unlock function. but the thread waitting to lock record is not notified. Why?
Thanks.

[dennis hu]

Hi Paul:
You must confirm waint and notifyAll in a same object,otherwise it will failure.
~dennis ~

[Paul Sun]

What does mean "same object". I think thread A want to lock a record, but thread B lock it at that time, so A will wait until B unlock it and
notify A. Am I right?

[dennis hu]

Hi Paul:
You are rignt!
If thread A want to lock a record that tread B had locked,thread A must wait until thread B unlock the record and notify it.
But what I mean "same objcet" is thread A and B must have the same reference of the object who contained wait() and notifyAll() but not means record.
~dennis~

[Paul Sun]

Hi Dennis:
Thanks. I put wait/notify method into LockManager, a object take charge of locking record, it can work so well.
Thank you.
Paul.