why wait/notify/notifyAll methods are not synchronized in java ?

Question

in Java whenever we need to call wait/notify/notifyAll, we need to have access to object monitor (either through synchronized method or through synchronized block). So my q

Answer 1

My guess would be that the reason the synchronized block is required is that the use of wait() or notify() as the only action in a synchronized block is almost always a bug anyway.

Findbugs even has a warning for this, which it calls a "naked notify".