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Is it true that if I only use immutable data type, my Java program would be thread safe?
Any other factors will affect the thread safety?
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Thread safety is about protecting shared data and immutable objects are protected as they are read only. Well apart from when you create them but creating a object is thread safe.
It’s worth saying that designing a large application that ONLY uses immutable objects to achieve thread safety would be difficult.
It’s a complicated subject and I would recommend you reading Java Concurrency in Practice
which is a very good place to start.