Is my Understanding Correct ?

[Sid Robin]

This para is taken from K & B

"When you synchronize a method, the object used to invoke the method is the object whose lock must be acquired. But when you synchronize a block of code, you specify which object�s lock you want to use as the lock, so you could, for example, use some third-party object as the lock for this piece of code. That gives you the ability to have more than one lock for code synchronization within a single object."

class SyncTest {
public void doStuff() {
System.out.println("not synchronized");
synchronized(this) {
System.out.println("synchronized");
}
}
}

Does this para mean to say that if we replace "this" operator with any third party object, then we will have two locks

One is the lock of the object which was used to invoke the method and
the other was the third party object

Am i correct ?

Regards
sid

[Henry Wong]

Does this para mean to say that if we replace "this" operator with any third party object, then we will have two locks

You will have one lock -- you will replace the lock from the "this" object with the lock from another object.

One is the lock of the object which was used to invoke the method and
the other was the third party object

There is no lock need to invoke the method -- the method isn't synchronized. (which BTW, if the method is syschronized, it would have used the "this" object)

Henry