Regarding "signal" vs. "signalAll", you can check my old thread:
Well, it does a little, but compared to active waiting it should not be a problem. You would need to implement per record waiting to avoid waking up threads, which are waiting upon different records.
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Originally posted by Chris Be:
This is a somewhat counterintuitive, especially for junior programmers - and apparently testers. With the given design, I can follow the tester's train of thought when he would expect a ReentrantLock to be locked when leaving the method (thinking along the lines of approach 1).
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