在Lock接口出现之前,Java程序是靠synchronized关键字实现锁功能的,而Java SE 5之后,并发包中新增了Lock接口(以及相关实现类)用来实现锁功能,它提供了与synchronized关键字类似的同步功能,只是在使用时需要显式地获取和释放锁。虽然它缺少了(通过synchronized块或者方法所提供的)隐式获取释放锁的便捷性,但是却拥有了锁获取与释放的可操作性、可中断的获取锁以及超时获取锁等多种synchronized关键字所不具备的同步特性。使用synchronized关键字将会隐式地获取锁,但是它将锁的获取和释放固化了,也就是先获取再释放。当然,这种方式简化了同步的管理,可是扩展性没有显示的锁获取和释放来的好
一下示例为 java api并发库中 ReentrantReadWriteLock自带的实例,下面进行解读 class CachedData {
Object data;
volatile boolean cacheValid;
ReentrantReadWriteLock rwl = new ReentrantReadWriteLock();
void processCachedData() {
rwl.readLock().lock();
if (!cacheValid) {
// Must release read lock before acquiring write lock
rwl.readLock().unlock();
rwl.writeLock().lock();
// Recheck state because another thread might have acquired
// write lock and changed state before we did.
if (!cacheValid)
data = ...
cacheValid = true;
}
// Downgrade by acquiring read lock before releasing write lock
rwl.readLock().lock();
rwl.writeLock().unlock(); // Unlock write, still hold read
}
use(data);
rwl.readLock().unlock();
}
}