Locks are one of the basic synchronization mechanisms provided by the Java Concurrency API. They allow programmers to protect a critical section of code so only one thread can execute that block of code at a time. It provides the following two operations:
- lock(): You call this operation when you want to access a critical section. If there is another thread running this critical section, other threads are blocked until they're woken up by the lock to get access to the critical section.
- unlock(): You call this operation at the end of a critical section to allow other threads to access it.
In the Java Concurrency API, locks are declared in the Lock interface and implemented in some classes, for example, the ...
