Question About Deadlock Situation in Java

Question

I\'m learning about deadlocks in Java, and there\'s this sample code from Sun\'s official tutorial:

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Answer 1

Locks are held on Java objects, not java methods. So when synchronized is used on a method, it locks the "this" object. In the case of a static method, it locks the class object.

You can explicitly specify the monitor object by using synchronized ( object ) { }