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Race Conditions with Shared Mutable State in Java

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Module 4 begins with the most common class of concurrency failure: race conditions.

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Low-level monitor coordination is useful to learn because it exposes the core rules of Java concurrency clearly.

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Indefinite waiting is sometimes correct. Sometimes it is not.

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Low-level monitor coordination is powerful enough to be correct and dangerous enough to be fragile.

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Producer-consumer is one of the most useful patterns for understanding monitor-based coordination.