is buffered reader thread safe?

Question

Is there any way i can get a thread safe buffered reader .I got the the following info when i ran this code#

Threadid=28 ObjectReference=de.factfinder.resour         


        

Answer 1

Is BufferedReader thread safe?

The javadoc doesn't state the a BufferedReader is thread-safe, but when I look at the source code I see that the read methods use synchronize and an internal lock object. (You can check this for yourself at http://www.docjar.com/html/api/java/io/BufferedReader.java.html)

So the answer is (probably) yes, though it may depend on the implementation and version of Java that you are using.

However, there are two other things to take into account:

• A BufferedReader is a wrapper for a Reader, which is typically a wrapper for other classes. If parts of the same "I/O stack" are used by other threads, the fact that BufferedReader is thread-safe is not sufficient.

• If you have two threads both trying to read from the same BufferedReader you can get into trouble due to the threads not coordinating. While the individual read operations behave atomically, sequences of operations do not.

In short, thread-safety is not necessarily sufficient to ensure that there won't be problems in a multi-threaded application.

The hash codes for BufferedReader, InputStreamReader and InputStream remains same. Why?

The probability of 3 new objects having the same identity hashcodes as 3 previously created objects is very small, so I can only assume that your assumption / assertion that you are creating new instances each time is in fact incorrect.