Is there an advantage to use a Synchronized Method instead of a Synchronized Block?

Question

Can any one tell me the advantage of synchronized method over synchronized block with an example?

Answer 1

Synchronized methods can be checked using reflection API. This can be useful for testing some contracts, such as all methods in model are synchronized.

The following snippet prints all the synchronized methods of Hashtable:

for (Method m : Hashtable.class.getMethods()) {
        if (Modifier.isSynchronized(m.getModifiers())) {
            System.out.println(m);
        }
}