wait until all threads finish their work in java

Question

I\'m writing an application that has 5 threads that get some information from web simultaneously and fill 5 different fields in a buffer class.
I need to validate buffer

Answer 1

The existing answers said could join() each thread.

But there are several ways to get the thread array / list:

• Add the Thread into a list on creation.
• Use ThreadGroup to manage the threads.

Following code will use the ThreadGruop approach. It create a group first, then when create each thread specify the group in constructor, later could get the thread array via ThreadGroup.enumerate()

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Code

SyncBlockLearn.java

import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

/**
 * synchronized block - learn,
 *
 * @author eric
 * @date Apr 20, 2015 1:37:11 PM
 */
public class SyncBlockLearn {
    private static final int TD_COUNT = 5; // thread count
    private static final int ROUND_PER_THREAD = 100; // round for each thread,
    private static final long INC_DELAY = 10; // delay of each increase,

    // sync block test,
    @Test
    public void syncBlockTest() throws InterruptedException {
        Counter ct = new Counter();
        ThreadGroup tg = new ThreadGroup("runner");

        for (int i = 0; i < TD_COUNT; i++) {
            new Thread(tg, ct, "t-" + i).start();
        }

        Thread[] tArr = new Thread[TD_COUNT];
        tg.enumerate(tArr); // get threads,

        // wait all runner to finish,
        for (Thread t : tArr) {
            t.join();
        }

        System.out.printf("\nfinal count: %d\n", ct.getCount());
        Assert.assertEquals(ct.getCount(), TD_COUNT * ROUND_PER_THREAD);
    }

    static class Counter implements Runnable {
        private final Object lkOn = new Object(); // the object to lock on,
        private int count = 0;

        @Override
        public void run() {
            System.out.printf("[%s] begin\n", Thread.currentThread().getName());

            for (int i = 0; i < ROUND_PER_THREAD; i++) {
                synchronized (lkOn) {
                    System.out.printf("[%s] [%d] inc to: %d\n", Thread.currentThread().getName(), i, ++count);
                }
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(INC_DELAY); // wait a while,
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }

            System.out.printf("[%s] end\n", Thread.currentThread().getName());
        }

        public int getCount() {
            return count;
        }
    }
}

The main thread will wait for all threads in the group to finish.