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

Java 5 introduced ThreadMXBean - an interface that provides various monitoring methods for threads. ... The difference is that findDeadlockedThreads can also detect deadlocks caused by owner locks (java.util.concurrent), while findMonitorDeadlockedThreads can only detect monitor locks (i.e. synchronized blocks)

Or you can detect it programatically, refer this https://dzone.com/articles/how-detect-java-deadlocks