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On 18 May 2000 12:29:03 -0600, pae@dimensional.com (Phil Earnhardt)
wrote:

>On Fri, 19 May 2000 00:06:05 +1000, "someguy" <someguy@somewhere.com> wrote:
>
>>what disadvantages do i have with the java.utils.ArrayList
>>java.util.LinkedList not being synchronized?
>
>Quoting from _The Java Class Libraries Second Edition, Volume 1
>Supplement for the Java 2 Platform_ :
>
>"java.util.ArrayList
>
>Synchronization
>
>The list allows more than one thread to read from it. However, if a thread
>wants to modify the list, there should not be any thread reading from it at
>the same time. If reads and modifications need to be able to occur
>concurrently, you can create a synchronized version of the list by calling
>Collections.synchronizedList() on the list. This creates a version of the
>list in which all of the methods are synchronized. Note that although each
>method might still need to synchronize a sequence of method calls. See the
>Collections class description for more details."

I failed to mention: java.util.LinkedList works exactly the same way.

--phil