Thread safety of static blocks in Java

Question

Let\'s say I have some Java code:

public class SomeClass {
    static {
        private final double PI = 3.14;
        private final double SOME_CONSTANT =          


        

Answer 1

watch out that you dont call code that require the lock for the class being initialized - it will deadlock. see this blog post: http://ramblingabout.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/deadlock-quiz-the-answer/