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Can someone please explain this:

"A thread can acquire more than one lock. For example, a thread can enter a synchronized method, thus acquiring a lock, and then immediately invoke a synchronized method on a different object, thus acquiring that lock as well."

Can you please give an example this to explain the above statement.

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When a thread acquires a lock, it prevents other threads from acquiring the same lock until it has released the lock. A thread can acquire the same lock multiple times (locks in Java are reentrant), for instance:



A thread can also acquire one lock, and then proceed to acquire another lock, like this:

 
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Thanks for that!!
 
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