Question

Learning about notifyAll made me question something about notify: in a typical situation we have several threads which are waiting for a call to the methody notify. When this happens one of those thread (which previously invoked the wait method) is awaken and continues its work; my question is: what about the others? Do they get the lock from the object one after one or they simply got lost? I’ve seen a lot of emphasis on the fact that using notify there will be just one thread that goes on, but I’ve never read what happens to the other threads…

Answer 1

what about the others? Do they get the lock from the object one after one or they simply got lost?

They keep waiting for the next call to notify() / notifyAll(), just as if nothing happened.