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What is an object's lock and which object's have locks
An object's lock is a mechanism that is used by multiple threads to obtain synchronizedaccess to the object. A thread may execute a synchronized method of an object only afterit has acquired the object's lock. All objects and classes have locks. A class's lock isacquired on the class's Class object.


  
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