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Module 14: Concurrency and Multithreading

Lesson focus

Locks, Conditions, and Atomics

Coordinate complex thread interactions using Condition objects and atomic variables.

Condition.await/signal mimic wait/notify but require locking discipline, enabling multiple wait sets.

AtomicInteger, AtomicReference support lock-free algorithms when operations are simple.

StampedLock and ReadWriteLock optimize read-heavy workloads.

Lesson quiz

Which class enables lock-free CAS operations?

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