How to explain the “deadlock” better?

Question

I am struggling to explain \"deadlock\" in threads in easy words, so please help. What could be the best example of \"deadlock\" (say, in Java), and how it does happen in st

Answer 1

Usually the classes of concurrent programming explains deadlock by examples. I think that the problem of the Dining Philosophers will be a good example to use. You can develop this example in Java and explain the occurrence of deadlock when two philosophers holds a left fork and are waiting for the right fork. (or vice versa).

I learned a lot of concepts from concurrent programming using this examples implemented on Java.