Month: February 2013

Dining Philosophers is one of those classical problems to understand (and resolve) deadlocks in software. Lets look at examples were we cause deadlocks, come...

Java 5 has a ReentrantLock implementation of the Lock interface. Meaning if the same thread tries to acquire the lock again, it will allow...

Ok, lets start with seeing a simple example of how deadlocks can be created in java. Simple way to achieve this is to try...

Objective is to make a counter using Quartz. Step by step we’ll do the following Create a custom context listener to initialize a counter,...