Deadlock detection in Java

Question

Long time ago, I saved a sentence from a Java reference book: \"Java has no mechanism to handle deadlock. it won\'t even know deadlock occurred.\" (Head First Java 2nd E

Answer 1

If you are running from the command-line and you suspect that you are deadlocked, try ctrl+break in windows (ctrl+\ in unix) to get a thread dump. See http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/trouble/TSG-VM/html/gbmps.html