On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 01:11:49 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > I have no idea how synchronized classes work; they are not a documented > feature of the language. We have synchronized functions which > synchronize on the this reference. Perhaps synchronized classes just > make all functions in a class do this.
Per TDPL, having individually synchronized functions is illegal. Either _all_ of the functions in a class are synchronized or _none_ of them are. Putting synchronized on a function should actually be illegal. It belongs only on classes or in synchronized blocks, never on functions. Now, unfortuntately, I don't believe that the compiler enforces any of that right now, so you end up synchronizing indivdual functions rather than whole classes, but the synchronized functions themselves should function the same. - Jonathan M Davis
